Being poor makes you prone to conflict, and being in conflict makes you poor.

Being poor would mean that you would hate those who are rich.

Being rich would mean that you would hate those who are poor.

One thing that we can do is to agitate for our own governments to stop doing those things that make it harder for poor countries to stop being poor.

Being poor and backward go hand in hand, according to Jordanian blogger Muoffaq Qabbani, who brings us this story about how poor people insist on having more and more children.

In the meantime, America went from being a middle class society to one increasingly divided between rich and poor.

And we need to rethink our development strategies, so that we're not promoting educational campaigns to get them to stop being farmers, but rather to stop being poor farmers.

For the time being, the means of propaganda used by these associations are simply sermons and gifts to the poor.

Being born poor or in a remote village should not consign anybody to the misery of going without decent health care.

It s not 1979. Do political reporters ever take Newt Gingrich to task for, say, being overweight, unfit, and a poor dresser?

These include the poor socio economic infrastructure and isolation from world markets owing to its being a landlocked least developed country.

What considerations and analysis are being undertaken to incorporate within the macroeconomic framework the concerns of the poor and the disadvantaged?

Poor people live in poor neighborhoods with poor schools.

There is no shame in being poor in China if one reflects that one s children or grandchildren will be wealthy and successful.

The most affected are poor communities and women, due to lack of health education, empowerment, awareness and lack of social well being.

Poor Palestine. Poor Israel.

Most Latin American countries still get poor results from their efforts to export to Europe, the exceptions being raw materials and energy resources.

The fact that GDP may be a poor measure of well being, or even of market activity, has, of course, long been recognized.

MONUC quick impact project funds are being used to rehabilitate prisons where conditions are particularly poor, including in Lubumbashi, Kindu, Kinshasa and Kisangani.

Government programs supposedly provide a social safety net, but politicians are, in fact, largely indifferent to the well being of the poor, because poor voters turn out in lower numbers and do not finance America s expensive election campaigns.

The poor in developing countries are again being made to endure the worst consequences of a crisis that they played no part in creating.

It was seen as a bread and circus policy, with its main objective being to keep the poor from heading to the South beaches.

He worked swiftly to distribute as much Church property to the poor as possible, so as to prevent its being seized by the prefect.

That group begins looking for jobs requiring few qualifications, and that in turn increases the possibility of their being poor in their adult life.

Despite its reputation for being a liberal haven in an otherwise conservative region, Lebanon has a shockingly poor record when it comes to Women's Rights.

Poor responses are mostly associated with being over the age of 40 years, obesity and smoking, and also in alcoholics, especially if with advanced liver disease.

Her poor timing made the initiative appear heartless, as thousands of civilians were being uprooted, killed, or maimed by Israel s efficient but ruthless artillery and air force.

Worse still, they are being allowed to borrow cheaply from the United States Federal Reserve, on the basis of poor collateral, and simultaneously to take risky positions.

The Government had adopted relevant policies and, in particular, was trying to improve the well being and incomes of the rural poor through a community driven development approach, because it considered that the poor themselves should take part in formulating solutions to their problems.

These recent events have thereby highlighted our interdependence, reinforced the need for sustained and effective international cooperation and have placed before us, forcibly, the need to carry out a programme for global development to stop poor people from being poor, no matter where they live.

March forth , whether you are light ( being healthy , young and wealthy ) or heavy ( being ill , old and poor ) , strive hard with your wealth and your lives in the Cause of Allah . This is better for you , if you but knew .

March forth , whether you are light ( being healthy , young and wealthy ) or heavy ( being ill , old and poor ) , strive hard with your wealth and your lives in the Cause of Allah . This is better for you , if you but knew .

Hundreds of millions of poor people, who already spend a large share of their daily budget on food, are being pushed to the edge. Food riots are mounting.

Poor people are not only still poor they are still unhealthy.

I'm poor.

Poor Europe!

Poor Maradona.

And in the middle of this economic crisis, where so many of us are inclined to pull in with fear, I think we're well suited to take a cue from Jane and reach out, recognizing that being poor doesn't mean being ordinary.

Mr. Cumberbatch (Cuba) stated that racial discrimination was one of the cruellest manifestations of the exploitation that some peoples had been subject to for centuries, and was now being perpetuated by the widening gap being between rich and poor created by neoliberal globalization.

So, I kid you not, the first question on the survey that he was sent to ask was, How do you feel about being poor and black in America?

Only sustainable development a global embrace of green growth offers the world, rich countries as well as poor, an enduring prospect of long term social well being and prosperity.

Policy makers in developing countries are concerned that being forced to go down this path could put modern energy services beyond the reach of poor countries, families, and communities.

But it is no less clear that this aspiration is far from being met, and that the country s poor governance is laying a dangerously weak foundation for international engagement.

Indeed, even America s smaller welfare state seems aimed at the middle class more than at the poor, with the so called Earned Income Tax Credit being the biggest handout.

The optimism of the first decade was accompanied by a growing sense of inequality, and concern that the benefits of growth were not being shared by the urban poor.