It is also a very poor Muslim country.

Uzbekistan, a former Soviet Republic, is a poor country without many employment opportunities.

The depression had devastating effects in virtually every country, rich or poor.

At the same time, China really is still a poor country in terms of per capita income.

My personal memories of North Korea, now almost ten years old, are of a poor and depressed country.

Poor people live in poor neighborhoods with poor schools.

I'm a poor woman.

In adopting a child from a poor country, Madonna is following an example set by other celebrities like Mia Farrow, Ewan McGregor, and Angelina Jolie.

For the US, North Korea illustrates how a poor but ambitious country developed the bomb by gaming talks and gaining time.

She is poor, but happy.

Weak States, Poor Countries

Our story is from the wild north of Mozambique, a poor country in Africa of roughly 20 million people where 70 of the population are small scale farmers.

She's desperately poor.

Japan is poor in natural resources.

The Millennium Project drew attention to the new slum formation and the need to provide positive alternatives to new slum formation.

Victor Amadeus protested this exchange, Sicily being a rich country of over one million inhabitants and Sardinia a poor country of a few hundred thousand, but he was unable to resist his allies .

BERLIN The world s task in addressing North Korea s saber rattling is made no easier by the fact that it confronts an impoverished and effectively defeated country.

Although she is poor, she is satisfied.

I am too poor and not attractive so I won't be sold....

A poor widow came, and she cast in two small brass coins, which equal a quadrans coin.

And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing.

Yet no country, rich or poor, is keen to cut its energy use, owing to concern that to do so would threaten jobs, incomes, and economic growth.

A poor country can easily compete with Sweden in a wide range of manufactures but it takes many decades, if not centuries, to catch up with Sweden s institutions.

Maria, an indigent who makes a living selling coffee, tea and buns.

At the same time, China really is still a poor country in terms of per capita income. And parts of the country are more similar to sections of troubled developing countries than to China s showplace cities.

My wish is that TED assist us in our work and help us to build a high quality rural health system in a poor country, Rwanda, that can be a model for Africa, and indeed, for any poor country anywhere in the world.

It is a small, poor country that desperately needs stability and economic development. Its model should not be Palestine and permanent battle, but Switzerland and permanent prosperity.

But China is still a very poor country, at barely one tenth the income level of the US. It has a huge reservoir of surplus labor in the countryside.

Traditional farming uses few inputs and gets poor yields.

AMMAN Ayman is a soft spoken 14 year old boy in Jabalia City, Gaza.

CAMBRIDGE Countries are poor because governments are corrupt. And, unless they ensure that public resources are not stolen, and that public power is not used for private gain, they will remain poor, right?

She died in poverty, poor even among the poor, and was buried in a common grave.

Concerted efforts must therefore be taken to reduce injustice, inequality, exclusion and misery.

Still, Sweden remained a poor and economically backward country in which barter was the means of exchange.

It helps to be seen as a poor, developing country, not as an economic giant, because developed nations are expected to do more to combat major global challenges, like climate change.

Japan is not a poor country today. But its economic structure and level of prosperity make it look more like Italy than its counterparts in the eastern Pacific Rim the US coastal states of Washington, Oregon, and California.

And over the course of dinner, I learned that Kiribati gains most of its revenue it's a very poor country but it gains what revenue is has by selling access to foreign nations to take fish out of its waters, because Kiribati does not have the capacity to take the fish itself.

Too often, children growing up in poverty end up as poor adults.

It might be the world s most efficient rice grower, but it would still be poor.

Similarly, India has 104 million poor households and 107 million aspirant households.

The movie received mostly poor or mixed reviews, MetaCritic giving an average rating of only 43.

Of the 221 million classified as poor, 19 per cent are in a state of extreme poverty.

In this poor West African nation wracked by war, poverty and most recently Ebola, reading is not something people generally do for pleasure.

Like many born in coastal areas, he spent his youth and early adult years working in the fisheries.

Urban development promoting jobs, upgrading slums and developing alternatives to new slum formation