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Pacific islands face poverty as food, energy prices rise [1]

Soaring food and energy prices are likely to push five per cent of the population of the small island economies in the Pacific into poverty, the Asian Development Bank said Tuesday.
Oil producers East Timor and Papua New Guinea, which is also boosted by high mineral prices, are

Publication Date: 
27/08/2008
New Age (Bangladesh) [2]
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Food Prices [3], Energy [4], Poverty [5], Asian Development Bank (ADB) [6], East Timor [7], Papua New Guinea [8]
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