Thaindian News, 22 Jun 2009
Singapore, June 22 (DPA) The president of the Asian Development Bank warned Monday that the global economic downturn might lead to a significant increase of poverty in Asia.
“Instead of breaking out from poverty, we expect that more than 60 million people in developing Asia… will remain below the $1.25 a day absolute poverty line in 2009, as a result of the global recession,” Haruhiko Kuroda said in Singapore.
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