Mar 9 2009
World Bank: Economy worst since Depression
The world economy is on track to post its worst performance since the Great Depression, with developing countries bearing much of the economic pain, the World Bank said Monday.
Feb 12 2009
Nearly 1 billion starving worldwide
The increasing price of food has spiked the number of hunger-stricken people in the world by 40 million to reach 923 million in 2008.According to a recent report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), more people will fall under the undernourished category if the current economic trend continues in the [...]