Euro zone crisis bearing heavy human toll: OECD

Ordinary people's satisfaction with life has plunged in the euro zone countries worst hit by the financial crisis as faith in their governments' ability to ease the strain has shrunk, an OECD study found on Tuesday. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said the impact of the five-year-old crisis went deeper than lost jobs and income as reflected in traditional economic data. The OECD used answers from a Gallup World Poll of some 1,000 respondees in each of over 30 developed and emerging economies, asking them to rate life satisfaction from 1 to 10. "People feel like the government is unable to help them get out of the crisis," OECD chief statistician Martine Durand told Reuters.



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