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Bangladeshi poor 'beyond the razor's edge': UN food agency

Millions of impoverished Bangladeshis are barely sustaining a hand-to-mouth existence that would be wrenched from their grasp by any fresh “economic shock,” according to the UN food aid agency.

World Food Programme (WFP) country head John Aylieff said two million children aged under five in Bangladesh are suffering from acute malnutrition, which by World Health Organization standards represents a “nutritional emergency.”

“The population is beyond the razor’s edge, so that any other economic shock is going to have an immediate and direct impact on malnutrition,” Aylieff told Agencies.

Bangladesh was cushioned from the worst ravages of the global financial meltdown, but experts warn remittances and exports  Read more...

Will we lift the child in Bangladesh from poverty: Obama

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBqbGe0rNdg]Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama spoke to a huge crowd estimated at more than 200,000 people in Berlin, Germany on Thursday as a “proud citizen of the United States and a fellow citizen of the world.”

“I know that I don’t look like the Americans who’ve previously spoken in this great city,” Obama said, “The  Read more...