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Western Aid Declines, Financial Bailouts Mount

A child sits near his makeshift house underneath a toll road in Jakarta June 25, 2009. . The economy is the main battleground issue in Indonesia's presidential election campaign in a country where unemployment remains high and even small changes in prices of basic goods can trigger social unrest. Indonesia's presidential candidates are holding a series of televised debates ahead of the July 8 vote. Thursday's debate is on poverty and unemployment in Southeast Asia's biggest economy. REUTERS/Supri (INDONESIA POLITICS SOCIETY BUSINESS)

UNITED NATIONS - As the world's poorer nations warn about the gravity of the global financial crisis on their fragile economies, the United Nations has exposed the hypocrisy of Western donors who cry poverty even while they raise trillions of dollars to rescue their beleaguered financial institutions.