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Published on Wednesday, December 7, 2011 by Inter Press Service
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/12/07-1
World Inequality Rises Following Failed Economics
by A.D. McKenzie
PARIS - Mansions on one side of the road, and slums on the other. People queuing for food rations, while others drive by in shiny Land Rovers with tinted windows.
These are just some of the sights that have confronted Danielle Nierenberg as she traveled through 30 countries to supervise the Worldwatch Institute’s report titled ‘State of the World 2011: Innovations that Nourish the Planet’.
"You can see the stark differences within a single country very easily, and you see it every day," she told IPS. "In Africa it doesn’t look like the recession has affected the very wealthy. It has affected poor people the most."
Nierenberg was in Paris this week to launch ‘Comment Nourir 7 Milliards d’Hommes’ (How to Feed 7 Billion People), the French edition of the Washington-based think tank’s report.