Comments on: The Financial Crisis and the Poor http://www.one.org/blog/2009/03/11/the-financial-crisis-and-the-poor/ Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:41:39 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Abby pendlebury http://www.one.org/blog/2009/03/11/the-financial-crisis-and-the-poor/#comment-556260 Abby pendlebury Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:45:59 +0000 http://www.one.org/blog/?p=3183#comment-556260 Paul Collier, author of The Bottom Billion and Oxford Professor, puts it well: "The tough economic climate should not mean food assistance programmes get cut" : http://www.wfp.org/stories/wfp-worlds-insurance-programme-against-hunger The global financial crisis combined with the food crisis, is hitting the world's poorest of the poor very hard. Paul Collier, author of The Bottom Billion and Oxford Professor, puts it well: “The tough economic climate should not mean food assistance programmes get cut” : http://www.wfp.org/stories/wfp-worlds-insurance-programme-against-hunger

The global financial crisis combined with the food crisis, is hitting the world’s poorest of the poor very hard.

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