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Nobody has 20 billion and spare change in their sock drawer. Unnamed financial official on the difficulty of fighting world hunger a UN study found
Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009

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  • UNNAMED U.N. OFFICIAL,
  • on the difficulty of fighting world hunger; a study found that the number of people suffering from hunger rose to 1.02 billion, despite a 12-year effort to eradicate it
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