US President George W. Bush said on Tuesday on a visit to Saudi Arabia that he hoped oil producers would consider the impact of the current "very high" prices when they are reviewing output.

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Rising food prices have hit Asia's poor so hard that many have taken to the streets in protest, but experts see few signs of respite from the growing problem.

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Rocketing food prices in China have sown deep concern among the communist leadership, ever wary of social unrest, as they fumble to control inflation without repeating past mistakes, analysts say.

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Sri Lanka's double-digit inflation is not driven by runaway global crude prices but by poor economic management, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said Sunday.

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According to the United Nations (2008), global food prices have risen by forty

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