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Rising Food Prices Affecting Efforts To Reach MDGs For Food, Nutrition, World Bank/IMF Report Says
"Higher global food prices are hampering attempts to hit targets for food and nutrition," and "rates of child and maternal mortality [a]re still 'unacceptably high' -- partly as a result of surging commodity prices," according to the Global Monitoring Report 2012, released by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Friday in Washington, D.C., the Guardian reports (Elliot, 4/20). The report says rising food prices have affected some countries' ability to reach certain Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a World Bank/IMF press release notes.
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