Meanwhile, the international development agency ActionAid has described the growth of supermarket power "as very worrying indeed".

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Advertising giant WPP topped ActionAid's table with 611 subsidiaries registered in places widely regarded as tax havens.

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ActionAid, a British charity, hands out food to the able-bodied only if they help repair roads or dig ponds to conserve rainwater.

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For example, in Liberia, a range of partners acted in concert to re-integrate children, including UNICEF, World Food Program, World Health Organization (WHO), ActionAid, and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).

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"Although developing countries didn't make this crisis, it has become all too clear that they are in the firing line when it comes to suffering its worst effects, " Claire Melamed, Head of Policy at ActionAid said in a statement accompanying the report.

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"We have to do a lot of work with their communities so that they are able to return without being lynched or subjected to reaccusation, for example if a cow jumps over a fence and knocks down something, " says Adwoa Kwateng-Kluvitse, ActionAid's country director in Ghana.

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