The economic effects of the coronavirus could push around half a billion people into poverty, Oxfam said this week. The report was released by the Nairobi-based charity ahead of next week’s International Monetary Fund World Bank yearly meeting. “The economic crisis is deeper than the 2008 global financial crisis,” the report said. “The estimates show that global poverty could increase for the first time since 1990, it said, adding that some countries could return to poverty levels last seen thirty years ago.