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Food bank set up in Latvia to help those worst hit by financial crisis

Published: 27 July, 2010, 06:57
Edited: 27 July, 2010, 13:37


The financial crisis has especially hit a new member of EU, resulting in 8 percent of Latvians registered below the poverty line. Once enjoying a record breaking economic boom, it now relies on IMF loans to survive.

 
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