Whether the lure of such alternatives or poverty is what is causing people to cancel their subscriptions is not clear.

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The agency says that drought, high food prices, severe poverty and regional conflict are causing the crisis.

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The more to the lead the less room there is for poverty and or inequality to be causing it.

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Poverty and indebtedness swelled inexorably, causing a painful brain drain as any Sudanese who could, voted with his feet.

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Those tax rate increases will actually hurt the middle class and working people the most, as they will drive the economy back into a double dip recession, causing unemployment to rocket back into double digits, real wages to decline further, and poverty to soar.

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Pricey power, fuelled by high oil prices, is already causing headaches, with MPs muttering about windfall taxes on utility firms and talismanic pledges to reduce fuel poverty (defined as living in a household that spends more than 10% of its income on heating) in tatters.

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