pushed 44 million more people into poverty since last June.4400Food prices are close to record levels according to the World Bank\s latest assessmentAccording to the latest edition of its Food Price Watch, prices rose by 15% in the four months between October 2010 and January this year.Food price inflation is felt disproportionately by the poor http://www.mbtshoes4australia.com/ - MBT Shoes Australia , who spend over half their income on food.The Bank called on this week's G20 meeting to address the problem.The World Bank's president, Robert Zoellick, said in a statement: Global food prices are rising to dangerous levels and threaten tens of millions of poor people around the world http://www.mbtuktoday.co.uk/ - clearance mbt shoes .He also said that rising food prices were an aggravating factor of the unrest in the Middle East, although not its primary cause.Rapid food price inflation in 2008 sparked riots in a number of countries. At that time, the World Bank estimated 125 million people were in extreme poverty http://www.mbtuktoday.co.uk/ - MBT shoes clearance .The World Bank says prices are not quite back at those levels - just 3% below - although they are 27% higher than a year ago.A separate report earlier this month from the UN's Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) said that world food prices had hit a record high in January.Finance ministers and central bankers from the G20 group of developed and developing nations are meeting later this week in Paris.
The G20 begins a two-day meeting on Friday against a background of rising food and commodity prices.20What to do about the rising price of basic goods like food is likely to preoccupy the G20 meetingFinance ministers and central bankers from 20 of the world's biggest developed and developing nations will gather in Paris.They are being urged to tackle the issue of price inflation affecting basic goods, like food and fuel.Ahead of the meeting the International Monetary Fund warned that these have increased economic imbalances.Earlier this week, the World Bank said food prices were at dangerous levels and had pushed 44 million more people into poverty since last June.John Lipsky, first deputy managing director o
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