On 10/19/06, Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Insecurity and violence are badly hurting the Iraqi economy, with a 35% increase in poverty since the US invasion of 2003! Here are the main points in this Reuters article:* 5.6 million Iraqis living below the poverty line. (At a population of 27 million, this is about 21% or 1/5 of the inhabitants!) *40 percent of this number "is living in absolute and desperate deteriorated conditions." This is 2.2 million persons in the direst poverty, and 8.4 percent of the country's population-- nearly 1 in 10!
I don't know what Iraq's poverty line is, but how to 79% of the Iraqis, who are apparently not "officially poor," make a living these days? -- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>
