> http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aSueX0nYxMrg&refer=home
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> World Bank’s ‘Wrong Advice’ Left Silos Empty in Poor Countries
> By Alison Fitzgerald and Helen Murphy
>
> About 40 million people joined the ranks of the undernourished this year,
> bringing the estimate of the world’s hungry to 963 million of its 6.8
> billion people, the Rome-based United Nations Food and Agriculture
> Organization said yesterday. The growth didn’t come just from natural
> causes. A manmade recipe for famine included corrupt governments and
> companies that profited on misery. Another ingredient: The World Bank’s
> free-market policies, which over almost three decades brought poor
> nations like El Salvador into global grain markets, where prices surged.
-- DRR