The Treaty of Nice (2000) was result of a rather poor compromise.

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

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

In the years before the financial crash, capital moved from poor countries to rich countries, rather than vice versa.

Rather than poor countries growing faster than the rich (as we would expect from Economics 101), mainly the reverse is true.

Those leaders strategic decisions over the last few years, if not longer, have been rather consistently poor, or at least imprudent.

The report nevertheless points out that this is only possible in countries which are not extremely poor but rather have pockets of poverty.

Poor countries would receive prompt and predictable financing for agricultural inputs from a single account, rather than from dozens of distinct and fragmented donors.

Accordingly, the underperformance of SWF equity portfolios might be a consequence of unfortunate, but constrained, timing, rather than a result of poor stock picking.

Unlike the Chinese, the Bank has too often forgotten the most basic lessons of development, preferring to lecture the poor and force them to privatize basic infrastructure, rather than to help the poor to invest in infrastructure and other crucial sectors.

Unlike the Arab Spring rebellions, the driving force behind the ongoing protests is not Russia s poor and disadvantaged, but rather the country s rising urban middle class.

Guaranteeing access of the poor to public services is also significant and targeting should be seen as an instrument, rather than as a substitute, for universality.

Rather, sustainable, pro poor growth is the key, requiring political stability that is, peace and security for individuals good governance, and ownership of policies by all stakeholders.

Poor voters may not associate the largesse with the Congress led government in New Dehli, but rather with the state governments that actually hand out the goods.

Poor people live in poor neighborhoods with poor schools.

Poor Palestine. Poor Israel.

Poor peasants use their own seeds from the preceding season, lack fertilizer, depend on rain rather than irrigation, and have little if any mechanization beyond a traditional hoe.

Individuals often lack willpower or access to healthy food or convenient exercise facilities, and are surrounded by poor examples that encourage instant gratification rather than effort and restraint.

Would you rather have a farmer from romania working in britain, claiming to be poor and sending all the money home to build a mansion! thats whats happening.

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.

In this sense, the Indian state has been rather a poor agent it collects little and delivers a pittance and what it does deliver is of grossly inadequate quality.

Rather than giving away bed nets, rich country organizations like the United States Agency for International Development try to sell them to the extreme poor, albeit at heavily discounted prices.

In the words of Anne Krueger, the Deputy Managing Director of the IMF, Poor people are desperate to improve their material conditions rather than to march up the income distribution ladder .

This perception also accorded well with the median (typically poor) voter s low expectation of government in India seeing it as a source of sporadic handouts rather than of reliable public services.

Above a rather low level of income (enough to satisfy basic needs), Easterlin found no correlation between happiness and GNP per head. In other words, GNP is a poor measure of life satisfaction.

The despair of poor, provincial, and clientelistic constituencies is a tool rather than a problem, and belittling the US by aligning with Fidel Castro trumps promoting their countries real interests in the world.

Indeed, the region is not poor by international standards, but rather stuck in the middle income range between the world's poorest places and the high income countries of North America, Europe, and East Asia.

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

I'm poor.

Poor Europe!

Poor Maradona.

Not surprisingly, many UN agencies and aid agencies in rich countries fight this approach. All too often, the fight is about turf, rather than about the most effective way to speed help to the poor.

The US is richer on average than Sweden, but the income gap between America s richest and poorest is vastly wider than it is in Sweden, and the US treats its poor punitively, rather than supportively.

But technology alone will not be enough. Regulators, hospitals, and drug safety authorities must take the lead, rather than placing the burden on often poor and uneducated citizens who are struggling to care for loved ones.

Governments with meager tax revenues can't provide basic public goods. Worse yet, low tax revenues in poor countries often result from defects in tax collection systems (rather than low tax rates) that also promote unproductive enterprise.

On land issues, Oxfam rates PepsiCo, and ABF either poor or very poor.

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

Specially targeted are children under five from poor families and poor pregnant women.

She's desperately poor.

Abandoning Asia s Poor

The Healthier Poor

Are they poor?

Poor hygiene conditions.

Receive my instruction rather than silver knowledge rather than choice gold.

Indeed, they now claim, astonishingly, that trade actually harms the poor in poor countries!