"The global economic crisis pushed 27 million more people into poverty in Africa, putting the continent in a “precarious situation,” the African Union said. The proportion of African workers earning less than $2 a day probably increased to 86.6 percent in 2009 from 82.2 percent in 2007, the AU said today in its Economic Report on Africa, a publication authored jointly with the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa." (Quoted from article)