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

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

Poorest people on the left, wealthiest on the right.

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.

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.

The most mentally sharp older adults are the ones who show this positivity effect the most.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

While implementation will be a long struggle, with occasionally fierce resistance, key reforms are already underway.

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

Will Americans Become Poorer?

The Millennium Development Goals make it possible for those ideas to be translated into concrete achievements that will meet the needs of the poorer and more vulnerable segments of society in particular.

The time has come to create new mechanisms we must draw on the wealth created by globalization to raise stable, sustained resources to benefit the poorest countries.

The success that had been achieved thus far by the troops of MINUSTAH in Haiti should be linked to actions in support of the Haitian population in the poorer areas of the capital.

Studies have consistently shown that holding all else equal, subjects will predict positive outcomes to be more likely than negative outcomes (see valence effect).

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

This spending consumes a large proportion of poorer households income, precludes more productive household investments, creates few jobs, and often remains untaxed, as doctors and hospitals are frequently paid under the counter.

A young man from Moscow or St. Petersburg is six times less likely to be drafted than a young man from (much poorer) rural areas.

The Committee welcomes the adoption and implementation of targeted programmes to improve the situation of the poorest groups in society, such as Chile's Solidarity Based Social Protection System and the Plan for Universal Access with Explicit Guarantees.

They take their highest toll in the poorest countries and among the poorest communities in those countries.

In Africa, most countries have sunk deeper into poverty.

The new G 20 development agenda offers an excellent way to merge concerns about global imbalances with the need to accelerate the pace of development in the poorer countries.