Experts are unanimous: the financial, food and energy crisis will hammer the “bottom billion” – the poorest in some 60 countries that survive on around a dollar a day – the hardest. Because of the crisis, many African countries are likely to miss the 2015 deadline for the Millennium Development Goal of poverty reduction.
专家在这个问题上出奇的一致：金融、食品和能源危机对“生活在底层的十亿人口”（60个国家中仅靠1天约1美元糊口的最贫困的民众）打击最严重。由于这场危机，许多非洲国家可能无法在2015年的最后期限前实现减轻贫困的千年发展目标。