It is not just the poor who benefit from net governmental expenditures.

As mentioned previously, the poor can benefit in a multitude of ways.

Some participants argued that oftentimes foreign direct investment did not benefit the poor.

That rather poor cost benefit ratio does not appear to be improving.

In general, remittances tend to benefit poor segments of the population in recipient countries.

Poor rural frameworks hamper the knowledge dissemination needed for farmers to benefit from research developments.

Both rich and poor countries would benefit from increased migration, with developing countries benefiting the most.

For many poor countries, wealth in natural resources is a curse rather than a benefit.

The Asian Group requested the Secretariat to develop a new approach that would directly benefit poor regions.

In other words, the poor countries cannot benefit from globalization if the industrialized countries are not cooperative.

Indeed, the political genius of the men who built the welfare state was their insight that it would benefit the middle class even more than it would benefit the poor.

Some will argue for trickle down economics don t worry about the poor, eventually everybody will benefit from growth.

However, it was also argued by some participants that foreign direct investment often did not benefit the poor.

In particular there is a need to continue efforts to enhance market access for forest products and services to benefit the poor.

Improving governance and fighting corruption helps countries deliver basic services better and create growth and employment opportunities for the benefit of the poor.

But it also skews decisions in favour of capital intensive enterprise and away from labour intensive activities more likely to benefit the poor.

When spending is high, it is usually social spending that is badly targeted, which means that only a small share of poor people really benefit.

The fight against poverty, the provision of safe drinking water, sanitation and housing were interlinked and investments should be made in plans and programmes to benefit the poor.

A carefully designed public private partnership in which the state gives a subsidy directly to the poor, who then buy food from private farmers and traders would benefit all.

Those incentives will come at modest cost and huge benefit, and they can be designed to protect the poor and shift the climate change burden to those who can afford it.

Zakat The Islamic system of Zakat (two and a half annual tax on all unspent wealth and assets) is designed to benefit widows, orphans, the poor and those in dire need.

Expresses its appreciation for the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPCs) debt relief initiative and calls for its accelerated implementation in order to enable more eligible countries to benefit from the initiative.

Remittances benefit both the families that receive them and their communities through multiplier effects and may therefore contribute to the reduction of extreme poverty even if the very poor do not migrate.

Social inclusion means that all members of society rich and poor, men and women, majority and minority groups should have equal rights and equal opportunities to benefit from rising prosperity.

Poor people live in poor neighborhoods with poor schools.

A UNESCO project in Nabanna, India, on Networking rural women and knowledge explores innovative uses of databases, Intranet portals and web based partnerships in the local language for the benefit of poor women.

We therefore join the appeal for the speedy completion of the World Trade Organization Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations in order to assist poor countries, such as Malawi, to benefit from global trade.

Poor Palestine. Poor Israel.

If the products developed at a great cost cannot be traded or if the crops and vaccine do not reach poor farmers and hospitals due to emerging national regulations, countries are unlikely to benefit.

There were only 7,000 widowers receiving survivors' benefit half of them receiving the regular benefit and the other half, the combined benefit.

The crisis reminds us what each person owes to others, highlighting an ethical truth that we were quick to forget the rich benefit more than the poor from their cooperation with other members of society.

The international community must support efforts to replace the vicious circle of underdevelopment, unemployment and violence with a virtuous circle of peace, development and productive employment and to make economic sectors benefit the working poor.

To break this cycle, Kenya needs a new approach to government a return to Kenyatta s original vision of justice and equality, and a way for the poor to benefit from economic growth and globalization.

Cognizant that technological methods to advance these goals should be sustainable, accessible and of benefit to poor people, taking into account relevant international instruments and the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals,

It artificially creates as in France socially homogenous poor neighborhoods where the unskilled live among themselves, disconnected from others, making it harder for them to benefit from the agglomeration economies that would boost their productivity.

UNICEF will ensure that supported approaches in improved management of water resources equally benefit poor and disadvantaged communities and households, and that interventions do not in any way deteriorate the quality of the water environment.

At the end of 2002, 166,000 widows received survivors' benefit 95,000 received this benefit alone and another 71,000 were given the combined benefit.

In the context of implementing the Millennium Development Goals, poverty incidence should be reduced provided that favourable medium to long term economic growth is sufficiently broadly based to ensure that the poor benefit from such growth.

Retirement benefit

Widow's benefit

If we use goods made from raw materials that are obtained from a poor country without the proceeds being used to benefit the people of that country, we become complicit in a particularly iniquitous form of grand larceny.

You don't have to be poor to defend the rights of the poor.

The benefit is therefore modest.

The Healthier Poor

Deferred retirement benefit