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El Niño Could Be a Disaster for the Poor

El Niño Could Be a Disaster for the Poor

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John Berthelsen
Jul 08, 2009
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The growing certainty that the weather phenomenon known as El Niño will soon arrive could spell disaster for the world's poor and threaten shaky governments in the throes of the global economic downturn.

The Australia Bureau of Meteorology said in a report last week that, "More evidence of a developing El Niño event has emerged during the past fortnight,…

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