bread prices rising in Mozambique

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In the news story about bread prices rising in Mozambique, there are a few examples of Globalization.

The most important example is the Russians raising the price of wheat because of fires and droughts damaging the wheat crop. This caused the price of bread to rise 30% in Mozambique.  The people of Mozambique became very upset and began to riot because they couldn’t afford the bread with their dollar-a-day income.  Secondly the government of Mozambique decided to subsidies the price of bread so the people would stop rioting.

-population: 21,669,278

-life expectancy:  total population: 41.18 years

-TFR: 5.13 children born/woman

Religion: Catholic 23.8%, Muslim 17.8%, Zionist Christian 17.5%, other 17.8%, none 23.1%

-Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write

-Independence Day: 25 June 1975 (from Portugal)

-Labor force by occupation: agriculture: 81%  industry : 6% services: 13% (1997 est.)

-Population below poverty line: 70% (2001 est.)

-% of land is arable (farmable): 5.43%