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Some 17% of households are now energy poor – that is, they have to spend more than 10% of their income on energy; and, because elderly people are typically poorer, about a quarter of their households are energy poor.

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

That's very important in poorer countries, but not in the rich developed world.

First, transfer of resources from rich countries in the North to poorer countries in the South, accompanied by reform prescriptions.

Kenya, this world, will be much poorer without these wonderful species.

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