Fed: Donors push back tidal wave of poverty

AAP General News (Australia)
12-20-2005
Fed: Donors push back tidal wave of poverty

Economists expect almost three-quarters of the one and a half million people dragged
into poverty by last year's Boxing Day tsunamis to be out of poverty within a year.

The International Labour Organisation says up to 60 per cent of workers thrown out
of jobs by the disaster are earning a living again.

And Oxfam says there are clear signs the economies of countries effected by the disaster
are beginning to function again.





The tsunamis killed an estimated 230 thousand people in 11 countries and displaced
1.8 million others.

Oxfam says economists expect 70 per cent of those impoverished by the tsunamis will
be out of poverty by 2007.

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KEYWORD: TSUNAMI RECOVERY (SYDNEY)

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