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Poverty remains endemic
By - 01-19-2010 04:11 PM
Originally Posted at: The Japan Times Online
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NEW YORK Last year the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization announced that the number of hungry people in the world increased over the last decade. In 2008, the World Bank announced a significant decline in the number of poor people up to 2005.
If poverty is defined principally in terms of the money income needed to avoid hunger, how can announcements such as these be reconciled?
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The Japan Times Online
By - 01-19-2010 04:11 PM
Originally Posted at: The Japan Times Online
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NEW YORK Last year the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization announced that the number of hungry people in the world increased over the last decade. In 2008, the World Bank announced a significant decline in the number of poor people up to 2005.
If poverty is defined principally in terms of the money income needed to avoid hunger, how can announcements such as these be reconciled?
Read More...
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The Japan Times Online
