{"id":180954,"date":"2024-09-20T16:53:22","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T14:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-despite-gains-majority-of-basotho-experienced-moderate-or-high-lived-poverty\/"},"modified":"2024-09-20T16:53:22","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T14:53:22","slug":"lesotho-despite-gains-majority-of-basotho-experienced-moderate-or-high-lived-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-despite-gains-majority-of-basotho-experienced-moderate-or-high-lived-poverty\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Despite Gains, Majority of Basotho Experienced Moderate or High Lived Poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">More than four in 10 say they had to ask for help from friends or neighbours to make ends meet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\">Key findings<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Most Basotho (85%) say they or a household member went without a cash income at least once during the previous year, while 60% experienced shortages of food and half went without needed medical care (50%) and water (50%).<\/li>\n<li>About six in 10 citizens (59%) experienced moderate or high levels of lived poverty during the past year, a significant improvement compared to 2020 (70%). Only 5%&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409200483.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Lesotho\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/\">Lesotho<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than four in 10 say they had to ask for help from friends or neighbours to make ends meet. Key findings Most Basotho (85%) say they or a household member went without a cash income at least once during the previous year, while 60% experienced shortages of food and half went without needed medical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":180955,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,18241,24536,7219,6184,4717,1407,22101,7334,16374,257,7121,254],"class_list":["post-180954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-basotho","tag-experienced","tag-gains","tag-high","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-lived","tag-majority","tag-moderate","tag-news","tag-poverty","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}