NEW YORK: Over the last two years, the majority of countries in the world chose to expand public spending in order to buffer the impact of the global financial crisis on their economies and populations. But, this year, with signs of economic (...)
More than half of Asia's population - 1.8 billion people - live on less than $2 a day; more than 600 million of them try to survive on less than $1 a day. With food prices now soaring, most of Asia's "working poor, who are already struggling on (...)