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Food Prices Skyrocketing in China

According to the World Bank, 300 million people in China - a number roughly equal to the population of the United States - live on less than a dollar a day. As China's government works to control record high inflation, the country's poor are struggling...

from YouTube on Fri, Jun 06 2008

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