Power to the Poorest

Will Americans Become Poorer?

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

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.

That creates a vicious circle, with ever deepening poverty.

Canada will continue to provide substantial help to the poorest.

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

So the team that was the poorest had gotten even poorer.

There are poorer regions and poorer local governments.

One who works his land will have an abundance of food but one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.

He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough.

For two years now, that country has been divided, fragmented and increasingly impoverished.

Repaying such debt has rendered poor countries even poorer.

Women are often among the poorest of the poor.

You can say it's hygiene. I'm not pleading poverty.

Poorest people on the left, wealthiest on the right.

The rich get richer while the poor get poorer.

The poor regions had become poorer and the rich regions richer.

A good average does not necessarily translate into prosperity for the poorest.

We still face extreme poverty, food shortages, hunger and malnutrition.

Polio strikes the poorest communities in the world.

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

29. Priority must be given to the needs of the poorest countries and regions.

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

Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me

Remove far from me vanity and lies give me neither poverty nor riches feed me with food convenient for me

It thus becomes urgent to create an environment likely to promote economic development for the poorest countries.

Today, the competition to bring development to the poorest countries has ended.

Moreover, the ransoms that the poorest people must pay in order to avoid arbitrary arrests, beatings and other corporal punishment or to secure their freedom only impoverishes them further.

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

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

The continent s fusion of culture makes its people richer rather than poorer.

Official development assistance (ODA) is the most important source of financing for the poorest countries.

Today, the international trade architecture is such that it adversely affects the poorer countries.

So far, 16 of the poorest countries have benefited under these enhanced Toronto terms.

Some of the poorest countries continue to struggle with unmanageable debt burdens.

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.

Delegations expressed appreciation for the focus on the marginalized, the indigenous and the poorest segments of society.

Meanwhile, the poor countries continued to grow poorer, and the rich countries continued to grow richer.

Or has it? The rich are getting richer and the poor are still poor.

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

This contribution is made for various groups and organisations covering the poorest to higher socio economic groups.

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