CIAO DATE: 11/2009
September 2009
This year alone, as a result of the economic crisis, between 50-100 million more people will be trapped in poverty, scraping by on less than US$1.25 a day. This means millions more families forced to make impossible choices between buying life saving medicines, or the cost of sending their girls to school, or finding food for the next week.
Resource link: Money for Nothing: Three ways the G20 could deliver up to $280 billion for poor countries [PDF] - 112K