英国牛津饥荒救济委员会说,如果发达国家不帮助第三世界国家去摆脱贫困状况,预计九十年代发生在第三世界的灾难将多于八十年代。牛津饥荒救济委员会最近为纪念它成立50周年而撰写了一份报告,上述警告就是在这份报告中发出的。它说;“贫困的加深是灾难增加的主要原因。” The Oxford Hunger Relief Commission said that if the developed countries did not help the third world countries to get out of their poverty, it is expected that the catastrophe in the third world in the nineties would be more than in the 1980s. The Oxfam recently wrote a report commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of its establishment, to which the warning was issued. It said: “The deepening of poverty is the main reason for the increase in disasters.”