Friday, April 15, 2011
Scorpio Men Returning
dragged into poverty and 44 million people in extreme poverty
WASHINGTON .- The president of the World Bank (WB), Robert Zoellick, said today that 44millones of people have fallen into poverty since June 2010 due to a 36% increase in prices food in the last year, EFE reported. Some 1 200 million people live in poverty.
"More and more poor people suffer because of it and more and more people may be driven into poverty by high and volatile food prices," he said, adding that if the food price index rose only 10 % more, some di
ez million people fall into extreme poverty. The report
Food Price Monitor World Bank, the biggest advancers were corn (74%), wheat (69%) and soybeans (36%).
For its part, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Dominique Strauss-Kahn admitted that the loss of jobs in the world reached a record high and particularly affects young people.
"What should have been a brief period in unemployment is becoming a life sentence, possibly to complete a lost generation," said the official in Washington as part of the meeting of IMF and World Bank.
According to the Fund, the economic crisis took to the streets to 30 million workers worldwide.
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