SVG: Gov't terminates 2018 poverty assessment

Vincentians will have to wait until about 2025 to find out how the face of poverty has changed in the country.

The government has decided to terminate the 2018 poverty assessment because of what it says were incomplete, inaccurate, and misleading figures unofficially and prematurely circulated to the public in late 2020.

It further stated that the report was also abandoned because the challenges to complete data collection surveys, interviews, and analysis during the COVID-19 pandemic and volcanic eruptions were insurmountable and would have presented the problem of merging pre-pandemic, pre-volcano data with information gathered in the immediate aftermath of those cataclysmic events.