Welfare programs in war ravaged countries often aggravate joblessness by reducing work incentives and creating a culture of dependency.

Jones had been encouraging Temple members to adopt orphans from war ravaged Korea.

Almost everyone on the European continent, exhausted by war, and faced with the shattered institutions of their ravaged nation states, agreed.

For Afghanistan, ravaged by war without respite since the Saur Revolution of 1978, the endgame will be even more nerve wracking.

The US gave billions of dollars of aid to rebuild war ravaged countries in Europe.

The problems of war ravaged countries are far more acute and their choices much more constrained.

Rafah was ravaged by this war the houses near the border have been blasted by artillery shells, bombs and machine guns and the landscape is scarred and ruined.

Many Japanese, whose forebears ravaged the country in World War II, now profess a romantic sentimentality toward Myanmar.

Ahmed Lababidi, 22, left the war ravaged city of Aleppo back in 2012, fleeing across the Turkish border.

Millions of civilians were still threatened by unexploded mines and ordnance, which placed a heavy burden on the social and economic reconstruction of war ravaged countries.

Nobody should underestimate the difficulty of rebuilding Sri Lanka s war ravaged north and reconciling the Tamils at a time of global recession.

Europe is overcoming state nationalism, while Russia is building a nation state.Broken by history and not wishing to be ravaged by war again, Europeans have embraced compromise and renounced the direct use of force in international relations.

Sadly, global warming will likely destroy some of the same countries ravaged by the tsunami.

For its part, Niger is grateful that it has not been ravaged by major conflict.

Southeast Asia is more than just white sand beaches, temples and resorts it is also one of the most war ravaged regions of the planet.

Since 2002, when the 27 year civil war ended, the nation has worked to repair and improve ravaged infrastructure and weakened political and social institutions.

Meanwhile, although the number of active conflicts in the world is in decline, there remain too many people whose lives are ravaged by war or who live in countries which are struggling to recover from conflicts.

The Marshall Plan was a macroeconomic strategy involving massive capital transfers to help reconstruct the war ravaged industrial capacity and infrastructure of economies with well developed institutions.

Apart from war ravaged regions, only Africa has so many young people some 60 of the population who are prepared to brave any danger to flee their land.

In 1992, FRELIMO and RENAMO signed a General Peace Agreement (AGP) thus bringing to an end the civil war that ravaged the country for more than 16 years.

The Peacebuilding Commission must become the means of renewing nations, where war and the collapse of proper systems of government have left them ravaged and their people desolate.

BERLIN How heartwarming it is to land in Germany, where football fans hold up banners welcoming refugees from the war ravaged Middle East. Germany is the new Promised Land for the desperate and downtrodden, the survivors of war and pillage.

In a country ravaged by violence against women, Indian peacekeepers have inspired many local women to join the police force.

Sudan has been ravaged for decades by bitter conflicts rooted in abject poverty, struggles over resources, and ethnic and religious tensions.

If the US gave a tiny fraction of that 100 billion in development aid for Afghanistan, it would be far more successful in achieving peace and stability in that war ravaged country.

Ravaged by endemic elite discord since its founding, Pakistan desperately needs an elite reconciliation that includes all of the country s major stakeholders.

Would he have allowed himself such a vacation while his city was being ravaged by heat and toxic smog? Of course not.

BEIJING Ever since US President Barack Obama decided to begin withdrawing American troops from Afghanistan, global interest in what role (if any) China will play in determining that war ravaged country s future has grown dramatically.

Fortunately, Rajapaksa listened more to his war ravaged citizens than to outsiders, and today what seemed impossible military victory over the Tigers, the oldest, largest, and wealthiest guerrilla army in South Asia appears at hand.

Ravaged throughout its history by a multitude of devastating wars, Belarus has always been a staunch advocate of peace and a worker for peace.

Lesser known than the Irish potato famine, the Icelandic potato famine was caused by the same blight that ravaged most of Europe during the 1840s.

Their lands and resources have been stolen, their cultures ravaged and their human rights denied.

In the late 1990 s, as China and Vietnam were posting rapid GDP growth, North Korea was ravaged by one of the worst famines in modern history.

At a time when Africa was ravaged by numerous ethnic conflicts, the Saharans' continuing quest for a peaceful solution stood as a unique example on the continent.

He ordered the burning of the city on March 17, and the fire ravaged the Umayyad Mosque.

The Ebola episode holds further lessons. One reason that the disease spread so rapidly in Liberia and Sierra Leone is that both are war ravaged countries, where a large proportion of the population is malnourished and the health care system has been devastated.

Hassan Rowhani s unexpected first round victory could open doors, both for diplomacy and for Iran s sanctions ravaged economy.

But Saul ravaged the assembly, entering into every house, and dragged both men and women off to prison.

49. Also recognizes that countries struggle to develop when their children grow up malnourished, poorly educated or ravaged by disease, as these factors can perpetuate the generational cycle of poverty

How do you not despair when, with the body ravaged by chemotherapy, climbing a mere flight of stairs was sheer torture, that to someone like me who could dance for three hours?

And a nearly identical, invariably lethal disease, kuru, had ravaged the aboriginal people in Papua New Guinea throughout the twentieth century.

After the war, he was imprisoned by the United States for war crimes and later by Germany for murder.

After the Second World War, growth continued, helped by a post war economic boom.

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As a result, when the Asian financial crisis struck in 1997, China was insulated from the volatility that ravaged its fragile neighbors.