The Fat Rich and the Thin Poor
On the same day that the Asian Development Bank and two other organizations announced that there are 578 million hungry people in Asia, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said people in the OECD's 30 member countries are fat and getting fatter at an alarming rate.
In a graphic indication of how sharp the divide remains between the …
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