Struggling to cope with oil price rises

摘要

The rising price of oil has hit the prosperity of many companies, communities and countries, but it is the world's poorest people -living in what the United Nations calls 'least-developed countries' -that are suffering the most. They can least afford to pay more for fuel and, usually, least-developed countries do not have their own oil and gas reserves - otherwise they would have probably pulled themselves up from this bottom rung within the UN's Human Development Index, write c, in Thimphu, Bhutan; Juhel Browne, in Port of Spain, Trinidad; Bill Corcoran, in Johannesburg; and UK-based Keith Nuthall.