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Monthly Archives: June 2007
Child Hunger Costs Central America Billions Yearly
Newsblaze.com recently published an article that says child hunger costs Central America billions of dollars annually. I include an excerpt: Child undernutrition cost the economies of Central America and the Dominican Republic almost $7 billion – or 6.4 per cent of the region’s gross domestic product (GDP) – in 2004, according to a new joint […]
Flawed Definition of Poverty
Carl Bialik recently wrote about the flaws in the way that the World Bank calculates poverty levels. I include an excerpt: [T]o some economists, the World Bank’s definition of poverty is flawed, arbitrary and tends toward suppressing the numbers. Sanjay Reddy, a Columbia University economist and longtime critic of the bank’s counts, says, “If their […]