Power to the Poorest

Will Americans Become Poorer?

In Africa, most countries have sunk deeper into poverty.

One who works his land will have an abundance of food but one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.

He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough.

For two years now, that country has been divided, fragmented and increasingly impoverished.

A good average does not necessarily translate into prosperity for the poorest.

We still face extreme poverty, food shortages, hunger and malnutrition.

Gaza is one of the most overcrowded and poorest colonies in the world.

The United States, for example, cruelly allows its poorest children to suffer.

Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me

Remove far from me vanity and lies give me neither poverty nor riches feed me with food convenient for me

A bolder solution would be direct cash transfers to the poor.

Currency unions require a mechanism for permanent transfers to poorer regions.

The continent s fusion of culture makes its people richer rather than poorer.

Official development assistance (ODA) is the most important source of financing for the poorest countries.

Today, the international trade architecture is such that it adversely affects the poorer countries.

High on this list is the failure to improve maternal health in the poorest countries.

Delegations expressed appreciation for the focus on the marginalized, the indigenous and the poorest segments of society.

The MDGs for health could be achieved even in many of the world s poorest countries.

There is also a need to secure more stable, predictable and flexible aid flows for the poorest countries.

The plight of the poorest developing countries in the context of international trade negotiations requires urgent consideration.

In particular, our cooperation with the poorest countries in Africa is the area that will increase the most in the coming years.

We need a new mindset. The world is converging, but but but not the bottom billion.

The greatest irony in global health is that the poorest countries carry the largest disease burden.

The number of households headed by women grew. In some regions, such households accounted for 40 of the total number of households. Those families are among the poorest.

The recent G8 agreement on debt relief for the poorest nations was a positive step.

The world's poorest countries have had their debts cancelled, while many more proposals are awaiting implementation.

The US is also a large transfer union, in which richer states permanently subsidize the poorer ones.

In absolute terms, Russia is among the leaders in debt cancellation for the poorest countries.

New antiretroviral medicines had been developed and were being used in rich countries, but were too expensive for the poorest.

Microsoft founder Bill Gates has suggested that Internet access is not a high priority for the poorest countries.

According to the World Bank, the poorest countries in the region were (as of 2008) Haiti, Nicaragua, Bolivia and Honduras.

The procedures of the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) and the resulting programs must include a partnership with the poorest.

We need to drive up standards of governance and help the poorest people, for whom support is most crucial.

We promised here five years ago to help bring hope, dignity and opportunity to the lives of the poorest.

Failure to do so may result in greater impoverishment of the poorest and regression for those countries which have seen progress.

A shared sense of human solidarity is just as important to citizens of powerful countries as it is to poorer countries.

Richard Wilkinson found this to be true not only for the poorest members of society, but also for the wealthiest.

Many of the poorest countries, especially in sub Saharan Africa, will not meet the targets on time.

The figures revealed the glaring contrasts between rich and poor nations and between rural and urban populations in the poorest countries.

Thus, southern Europe is losing its best talent, northern Europe is struggling to fill its job vacancies, and all of Europe is becoming poorer.

So the private sector must share expertise with public schools, and, where possible, offer free places to the poorest children.

The threat could become reality if the income gap between the richest and the poorest countries of the world continued to widen, as was currently the case.

In most of them, especially in the poorest and most disadvantaged countries, the lack of capacity impacts directly on their poverty situation and development prospects.