Poorest people on the left, wealthiest on the right.

The world is converging, but but but not the bottom billion.

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

Polio strikes the poorest communities in the world.

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

People were actually getting poorer than their parents, and sometimes even poorer than their grandparents had been.

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

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

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

And that's the bottom billion, where we've heard today about a completely new approach to do it.

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

This would ensure higher efficiency of the development efforts, especially in the poorest areas.

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

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

The State Secretariat for Public Health was also taking special measures to distribute medication to the poorer sectors of the population.

How might we improve access to safe drinking water for the world's poorest people, and at the same time stimulate innovation amongst local water providers?

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

Within these countries, those touched are among the poorest and the most marginalized.

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.

All four signs of distress are most prevalent in refugee camps and among poorer households in the Gaza Strip.57

In devising any strategy to reduce deaths from diseases and childbirth, policymakers should focus on the situations within each country.

In devising any strategy to reduce deaths from diseases and childbirth, policymakers should focus on the specific situations within each country.

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

Despite this fact, it is common for the poorest and the marginalized groups to get left out of critical fora of public discussion .

The Government of Peru is implementing specific policies in such areas such as employment, income, health, education, nutrition and gender issues with a view to helping the poorest.

Power to the Poorest

The two that worry me the most are the possibility that we will be unable to raise the funds needed to pay for health and development projects, and that we will fail to align around clear goals to help the poorest.

How might we improve access to safe drinking water for the world's poorest people, and at the same time stimulate innovation amongst local water providers?

The first table refers to the lists of countries by the percentage of their population with an income of less than 1.25, and less than 2, US dollars per day.

The mission learned that MINUSTAH had contributed positively to the work of the police, which was made evident, inter alia, by the growing police presence in the poorer urban neighbourhoods.

I come from a region in which more than 30 per cent of the world apos s poorest live.

But the more interesting thing was that I started learning from people.

13 See World Bank (2003). Measurement of the incomes of the richest and poorest tenths of households indicates that Bolivia comes first in Latin America, with 143.5, followed by Paraguay with 70.4.

Many ask why the most expensive technology should be used for the poorest people.

The Germans fear that such innovations would lead to a rise in domestic borrowing costs, and to direct and indirect fiscal transfers to poorer countries.

Funds should target the poorest countries in the most heavily affected regions specifically Africa, but also the Caribbean, Asia, and Eastern Europe.

Africa has some of the most unequal countries in the world on average, the richest 10 per cent of people earn 31 times more than the poorest 10 per cent

The most powerful people on the face of the planet are the ones who can affect the most minds, who... who can influence human behaviour, and social movements, and the way in which societies view themselves, the way they walk, the way they talk, things they eat, they drink and so on.

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

For the poorer countries, IDA should shift to an all grants facility and developing countries should be provided with increased policy space.

Because you shouldn't define people by their maddest edges.

Most people don't want the most expensive, they don't want the least expensive.

Will Americans Become Poorer?

This is because, in the mid area here, people are at their most active, and over here they're at their most frail.