Staff Reporter

Millions of impoverished Bangladeshis are barely sustaining a hand-to-mouth existence that would be wrenched from their grasp by any fresh “economic shock,” according to the UN food aid agency.
Quoting World Food Programme (WFP) country head John Aylieff AFP reports that two million children aged under five in Bangladesh are suffering from acute malnutrition, which by World Health Organization standards represents a “nutritional emergency.”
“The population is beyond the razor’s edge, so that any other economic shock is going to have an immediate and direct impact on malnutrition,” Aylieff told AFP. [Read more]