Poor people live in poor neighborhoods with poor schools.

I'm a poor woman.

She is poor, but happy.

Weak States, Poor Countries

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.

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.

It is also a very poor Muslim country.

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

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.

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

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

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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

Today, more than 80 per cent of African States were highly indebted poor countries.

And in the seat next to me was a high school student, a teenager, and she came from a really poor family.

These children live in the poorest and most remote communities, where the risk of disease is highest.

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.

But Chechnya, obliging as it is, is small, poor, and idiosyncratic.

So abundant natural wealth often creates rich countries with poor people.

The fact that some countries are poor while others are prosperous poses a great threat to international peace and security.

And it's a really poor area. I represent Northern Kenya the most nomadic, remote areas you can even find.

It manages simultaneously to fleece the people of six poor countries and to put US workers in harm s way.

As a result, the US and others following its example are becoming rich countries with poor people.

Reducing unemployment is desirable, of course, but many terrorists do not come from poverty.

CAMBRIDGE Perhaps for the first time in modern history, the future of the global economy lies in the hands of poor countries.

To take the most significant example, China staged military interventions even when it was poor and internally troubled. A 2010 Pentagon report cites Chinese military preemption in 1950, 1962, 1969, and 1979 in the name of strategic defense.

I remember, I went to a poor school, because my mother could not gather the 21 rupees, that half a dollar that was required within the stipulated time.

Estonia was indeed poor, and its main exports were scrap metal and timber, but its economy was growing.