I en stor tale på FNs fjerde konference om verdens mest udsatte og fattige nationer (LDC-landene), der finder sted i Istanbul i Tyrkiet, gjorde en af Verdensbankens direktører regnskabet op.
Af Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Managing Director, The World Bank Group
WE ARE HERE at a very important time in history.
The world economy is going through a very difficult transition. Three years after the worst financial crisis since the great depression, global growth is finally recovering – albeit very slowly.
World GDP has increased from a 2,5 percent average in 2008-2009 to 5,5 percent in 2011. Developed country GDP has grown from 0 percent to 3,5 percent while emerging country GDP has grown from 5,7 percent average in 2008-2009 to 7,8 percent in 2011.
But the least developed countries (LDCs) have performed well. LDC’s (excluding four outlier countries) have grown from an average of 8,5 percent during 2000-2007 to 10,3 percent in 2008-09. That’s a significant increase in this difficult post financial crisis environment.
However this growth is fragile. Millions of people in the world’s poorest countries are today living on a knife’s edge – the victims of high and volatile food prices.
People’s lives too are under threat by the impact of climate change and civil unrest. The devastation wrought by climate change, volatile and high food prices and conflicts pose threats not only to the poor people within countries, but can also spill over borders and threaten global security.
Rising food prices have pushed about 44 million more people into poverty since June last year.
The 2008 food crisis led to over 40 riots in many poor countries serving as a strong warning about the importance of food security for social stability and people’s own security.
1,5 billion people now live in countries affected by repeated cycles of political and criminal violence.
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