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High Food, Fuel Prices Threaten the Poor: World Bank Chief
Pyongyang, April 20 (KCNA) -- Volatile food and fuel prices are threatening the world's poor, World Bank Group President Robert Zoellick said in a recent press interview.

According to the latest edition of the World Bank's Food Price Watch, an additional 10-percent increase in global prices could drive an additional 10 million people below the 1.25 U.S. dollars extreme poverty line.

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