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After emancipation in the nineteenth century, the African-American communities remained impoverished and largely bereft of political rights.
These diseases often lack effective preventative or curative vaccines or medicines, or the treatments that are available are too costly for the impoverished populations.
The United States government has proven itself blind to these facts, but the international community also remains ill equipped to assist in the restoration of peace following conflicts in impoverished countries.
Since the economies of most impoverished post-conflict countries are based on agriculture, restarting farm output is vital.
Impoverished farmers should receive a free package of seeds, fertilizers, and low-cost equipment (such as pumps for irrigation).
On its website is a testimonial by the American Council on Science and Health, a pro-petrochemical industry group, praising Lomborg’s advocacy for “cheap fossil fuels for those living in impoverished countries.”
The chaebol played a crucial role in transforming war-torn South Korea into a wealthy, dynamic economy in less than four decades, supporting the impoverished population in the name of economy-first politics.
The consequences of retaining it might not be as dramatic as Keynes’ prophesied, but there is a real possibility that the Bank will ossify into an institution whose increasingly impoverished G-7 donors dispense progressively smaller sums of money in the same questionable ways to a shrinking number of supplicants.
France’s impoverished suburbs, the notorious banlieues , make the ideal of “fraternité” sound like an insult on top of an injury.
China’s attitude toward its belligerent, impoverished neighbor is actually very complex.
Millions of people remain impoverished, face discrimination, and suffer long-lasting trauma even after the guns fall silent.
With modest up-front financing, impoverished and traditional rural communities that had not considered educating girls suddenly see the immense value to the community of educating both boys and girls.
Impoverished communities are cheering the prospect of a rapid ramp-up in girls’ education, if meager resources permit.
The alternative is further financial repression and, with it, low investment, rising economic and social tensions, and the emergence of a generation of impoverished pensioners.
Nor has it brought peace to the oil rich Niger delta whose impoverished people resent exploitation of the resources of their territory for the enrichment of a corrupt elite.
Once again, Spain is proposing practical and innovative means to move from talk to action, specifically to help impoverished peasant farmers to get the tools, seeds, and fertilizer that they need to increase their farm productivity, incomes, and food security.
The landlocked and impoverished country of Malawi, under the leadership of President Bingu wa Mutharika, has doubled its annual food production since 2005 through a pioneering effort to help its poorest farmers.
The resulting peace dividend should be channeled toward health care, education, and infrastructure in today’s impoverished and war-torn regions.
The tragedy of millions of impoverished people dying of AIDS even when drugs exist to treat them raises deep questions about global intellectual property rights, because patent protection is creating a barrier to essential medicines reaching the world's poor.
The rich world should offer impoverished regions like sub-Saharan Africa more economic support to break out of poverty.
By raising living standards, we would also be empowering both civil society and impoverished governments to defend the rule of law.
The idea of the IFF is to guarantee that donor countries double their aid levels during the next decade, so that well-governed poor countries can make the investments they need to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.Brown is exactly right: let's put Africa and other impoverished regions on a path of sustained economic growth by frontloading the aid during the period until 2015.
One course of action must be to help impoverished African regions to “adapt” to climate change and to escape the poverty trap.
It is ironic that the United States, which portrays itself as a friend of democracy and impoverished countries, gives the smallest share of its GNP in aid among the rich countries, and also refuses to participate in global efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Sometimes domestic policies will backfire and keep foreign investors out and the domestic economy impoverished.
The exploited, impoverished, underrepresented, despised, and dehumanized population is living under even worse conditions, more marginalized than ever.
Realism on North KoreaBERLIN – The world’s task in addressing North Korea’s saber rattling is made no easier by the fact that it confronts an impoverished and effectively defeated country.
The currency crises in Mexico, East Asia, and Argentina primarily impoverished workers who lost their jobs, those whose hard-currency debts suddenly ballooned, and rich-country investors who found themselves renegotiating terms with insolvent borrowers.
When, a little over a year ago, 42 elementary school children and teachers in impoverished Jiangxi (south central China) were killed in an explosion, China's domestic newspapers and internet sites reported the explosion as the result of an appalling child-labor scheme: nine-year-old children had been forced to install detonators in firecrackers so that teachers could sell fireworks to supplement their salaries.
In places like south Lebanon, which suffer from deep social cleavages and inequalities, free elections and free trade hold little resonance for people who are impoverished and marginalized.
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