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In Senegal, for example, a world-leading pipe manufacturer, JM Eagle, donated more than 100 kilometers of piping to enable an impoverished community to join forces with the government water agency PEPAM to bring safe water to tens of thousands of people.
British rule left India impoverished, diseased, and undeveloped, with an appalling 18% literacy rate.
Both Afghanistan and the neighboring provinces of Pakistan are impoverished regions, with vast unemployment, bulging youth populations, prolonged droughts, widespread hunger, and pervasive economic deprivation.
The use of development aid as a political stick merely deepens the suffering of impoverished and unstable countries, without producing the political objectives sought by donors.
Second, US and European threats to cut off aid or impose sanctions are in any case far too weak to accomplish much besides undermining already unstable and impoverished countries.
An aid cutoff to Ethiopia would nonetheless lead to a lot of death among impoverished people, who will lack medicines, improved seeds, and fertilizer.
The UN reports that awareness of climate change in wealthy and highly literate countries is nearly twice that in impoverished, less literate countries.
Ethiopia’s New Climate of FearVienna – The European Union, the United States, and other major donors will pump about $2.5 billion into Ethiopia this year, a sum that does not even begin to include the cost of medicines, famine relief, and countless other services provided by non-profit groups in one of the world’s most impoverished countries.
Peasant farmers in Africa, Haiti, and other impoverished regions currently plant their crops without the benefit of high-yield seed varieties and fertilizers.
There is now widespread agreement on the need for increased donor financing for small farmers (those with two hectares or less of land, or impoverished pastoralists), which is especially urgent in Africa.
The 2008 planting seasons came and went with much too little additional help for impoverished small farmers.
Though Ebola was known to be both contagious and often fatal, it was thought that only Africa’s impoverished rural population was at risk.
Should we really be valuing the life of a person in an affluent country at more than 6,000 times the value of the life of an impoverished child in a developing country?
Z. A. Bhutto’s legacy was empowerment of the impoverished and defense of ordinary people’s rights amid feudalistic politics and military rule.
Though much of rural India remains impoverished, new dynamic urban-based centers of information technology are springing up around the country.
As the first week of the annual UN General Debate drew to a close, there was lofty talk of seize-the-moment imperatives – from climate change and sustainable development to renewed pledges of aid for the impoverished and the advancement of women around the globe.
The provisions in the tax law to encourage private investment in impoverished areas center on the creation of “Opportunity Zones” (a term coined more than 30 years ago by New York Governor Mario Cuomo).
State and local governments, acting as “laboratories of democracy,” can pursue innovative solutions to persistent problems in impoverished communities.
Around eight million impoverished people will die of these three preventable and treatable diseases in 2004.
In Belarus, an impoverished Lukashenko increasingly resorts to brute force to maintain his rule – breaking up peaceful demonstrations, imprisoning political opponents, and terrorizing the intelligentsia.
"The child's creativeness and ability to transcend reality are blunted," states one ILO report, "and his whole mental world is impoverished."
In practically all impoverished societies, parents place wages above education.
I grew up in a small, impoverished town in central Serbia, where my parents lifted themselves out of extreme poverty and deprivation.
But impoverished and slow-growing African countries like Ghana, Senegal, Mali, Benin, and Malawi are ranked as having less corruption than fast-growing Asian countries like Vietnam, Bangladesh, and Indonesia.
Even an economy as impoverished as Haiti’s is a complex system dependent on trade between rural and urban areas, transport, electricity, port services, and government functions.
The world’s emergency-response systems – especially for impoverished countries in zones that are vulnerable to earthquakes, volcanoes, droughts, hurricanes, and floods – needs upgrading.
The EU spent 9billion euros between 1999 and 2002 to prepare Central European and Baltic candidate countries for membership - 10 times the amount it spent on Central Asia's impoverished non-candidate countries.
Afghanistan is a stark warning of what happens when the world turns its back on an impoverished country in a volatile region.
Being offered financing from all directions may not be a bad proposition for impoverished developing countries in need of infrastructure.
A policy that leaves owners of risky financial assets impoverished is a policy that shuts down dynamism in the real economy.
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