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Instead, these policies have left hundreds of millions of people even more desperately poor and hungry, and even more vulnerable to drought, pests, and soil depletion.
If so, they should choose an issue for their campaign that would be less damaging to the poor and hungry in developing countries.
The armed forces operate a parallel economy, with its own mines, farms, and factories, though many soldiers and junior officers still go hungry.
Her political style is both refreshing and relevant, because she comes across as sincere and forthright at a time when the public is hungry for moral leadership.
Is China ready for Greenpeace, Human Rights in China, Amnesty International, and Falun Gong supporters to take to the streets, with thousands of foreign journalists hungry for stories and asking questions that the authorities are unaccustomed to answering?
As he put it in an interview in 2013, “a hungry man is not a free man,” because he can focus only on his next meal.
They were young entrepreneurs, hungry for success.
Food has backstories, too, none more unsavory than this one: agricultural workers – the people who make dinner possible – are also the most likely to go to bed hungry.
In 1965, Pakistani Foreign Minister Zulficar Ali Bhutto famously declared that if India, its sworn enemy, went nuclear, his country would “eat grass and even go hungry” in order to develop a nuclear bomb of its own.
Iran’s leaders might be ready to let their people “eat grass and even go hungry” for the sake of their nuclear ambitions, but Iran’s squeezed middle class, one hopes, will not submit to such degradation.
Today, the Saudis see 24 million Yemenis – hungry, heavily armed, and envious of Saudi wealth – looking across the border.
We cannot achieve it, and even if we could, the resources to help the last hungry person would be much better spent elsewhere.
Rethinking Poverty ReductionNEW YORK – Last year, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization announced that the number of hungry people in the world increased over the last decade.
Unfortunately, poverty remains endemic, with more than a billion people going hungry every day.
For starters, it would be a world in which people live free from conflict over land, water, and space, and that ensures food security for the 739 million people who are hungry or malnourished today.
According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, 815 million people, including 200 million children under the age of five, go to bed hungry each night.
They have also contributed mightily to the high general level of asset prices, helping create the vast riches of which today’s hungry young traders are so jealous.
In April 2008, Evo Morales, the president of poor and increasingly hungry Bolivia, pleaded for “la vida primero, los autos segundos” (life first, cars second), exhorting the wealthy world to stop burning food every time they drive – a reference to Western governments’ policies on bio-fuels.
In daytime I cried in Nanny's skirt; if I was hungry I ran to Nanny.
When the tech sector began its evolution toward systemic importance, it comprised a collection of hungry start-ups possessing breakthrough technologies.
They are simply poor, hungry, and disease-ridden.
With nearly 900 million chronically hungry people around the globe, the Summit presents an opportunity to reverse the collapse of financial assistance for food production to poor countries.
The rich may feel that clever words will absolve them of responsibility, but the hungry and dying stand witness to the tragic realities.
Research shows that people are more likely to donate to a charity helping the hungry if they are given a photo and told the name and age of a girl like those the charity is aiding.
Military approaches alone will not work, because the root of the problem is the vulnerability of poor, hungry people to the prophets of hate.
Political prisoners, hungry children, the homeless Chernobyl refugees, or the irradiated workers in need of a lifetime of medical help – to dismiss their plight, to refuse to offer some spark of hope, is to exile them to a netherworld of helplessness.
All of this is almost certain to be lost in the hullabaloo from lobbyists clamoring for action and media organizations hungry for bad news.
Failures of rainfall contribute not only to famines and chronic hunger, but also to the onset of violence when hungry people clash over scarce food and water.
Soldiers cannot keep peace among desperately hungry people.
The German public — hungry for economic recovery and tired of excuses -- has not been fooled by the euro and ECB bashing of its present government, and handed German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder a decisive defeat in the recent North Rhine-Westphalia elections.
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