If the countries of the Caribbean might have been holding their breath for news from the World Bank pointing to some measure of relief from what has been a protracted global food crisis, the Bank’s Monday, March 13 update provides little, if any, cause for comfort. Instead, it appeared to suggest that the crisis, having deepened in poor countries and poor communities in Asia, Africa and elsewhere, now also sits on the doorstep of “high-income” countries. Simultaneously, the Bank has sought to restate its earlier view that “almost all low and middle income countries” are now well and truly besieged with varying levels of high food prices.
