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UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 20 (NNN-APP) -- The global economic crisis continues to push millions of the world’s most vulnerable people into poverty, hunger and early death, a new UN report warns. The report stressed that green shoots of recovery are not being felt by the poor in the developing world.

New York—The global financial crisis continues to transform the working environment with at least 100 million more people—over the 61 million already without jobs—expected to fall below the poverty line this year, with the dire prospect of a possible spread of swine flu in the vulnerable population.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has written to the leaders of the so-called Group of 20 (G20) industrialized nations to cement their commitment to help the world’s most vulnerable who are bearing the brunt of the global economic turmoil. In his letter to the leaders ahead of their gathering next week in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the United States, Mr. Ban exhorted them to deliver on the $1.1 trillion pledge – especially the $50 million earmarked for the poorest nations – made in London earlier this year He also called on them to honour their official development assistance (ODA) commitments made in Gleneagles, Scotland, in 2005, of $155 billion by next year, with over one-third of that allotted for Africa.

UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations warned on Friday that millions of people will be pushed into poverty if the current worldwide economic crisis persists. In its latest report, entitled Voices of the Vulnerable: the Economic Crisis from the Ground Up, the world body said that the economic crisis is not over for hundreds of millions of people around the globe, despite the "green shoots" of recovery.

The global economic crisis continues to push millions of the world’s most vulnerable people into poverty, hunger and early death, a new United Nations report warns, stressing that "green shoots" of recovery are not being felt by the poor in the developing world.

A U.N. report warns global economic turmoil is still pushing millions into poverty, saying "green shoots" of recovery are not reaching the poor.

UNITED NATIONS, The global economic crisis continues to push millions of the world’s most vulnerable people into poverty, hunger and early death, a new UN report warns.The report stressed that green shoots of recovery are not being felt by the poor in the developing world.

It is my pleasure to brief you on the initial findings of a report that the Secretary-General will present to the General Assembly next week on the impact of the economic crisis on the poor and vulnerable. The report is a product of a new initiative to increase the availability of real-time data on the impact of the crisis, namely, the Global Impact and Vulnerability Alert System, or GIVAS.

"The near poor are becoming the new poor" as a result of the global financial crisis, the Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations said today at Headquarters, as she announced the development of the United Nations Global Impact and Vulnerability Alert System, or "GIVAS".

It is my pleasure to brief you on the initial findings of a report that the Secretary-General will present to the General Assembly next week on the impact of the economic crisis on the poor and vulnerable. The report is a product of a new initiative to increase the availability of real-time data on the impact of the crisis, namely, the Global Impact and Vulnerability Alert System or GIVAS.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has written to the leaders of the so-called Group of 20 (G20) industrialized nations to cement their commitment to help the world’s most vulnerable who are bearing the brunt of the global economic turmoil.

UNITED NATIONS — While economists in developed nations are cautiously pointing to the first signs of renewed economic growth, the global financial crisis is slamming some of the working poor around the world, Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations secretary general, said Thursday.