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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.
The second, or a different kind of remoteness is that within the large metropolitan areas all over the world, you have pockets, like slums, or shantytowns, or poorer areas, which are socially and economically remote from the rest of the city, so it's us and them.
Not because they've grown richer, but because the rest of the world has grown increasingly poorer.
People got poorer in Africa in the 1990s.
Their lives are usually socially much richer than our lives, although materially poorer.
It's not well appreciated, but over half of the world's population suffers from some form of cognitive, emotional, sensory or motor condition, and because of poor technology, too often, conditions result in disability and a poorer quality of life.
Just 25 years ago, the developing countries, the poorer countries of the world, were, notwithstanding being the vast majority of the people, they accounted for only about a third of the world's output.
And in poorer countries, smaller countries, fragile countries, conflict-afflicted countries, remittances are a lifeline, as in Somalia or in Haiti.
And that's good news, and that's what we've seen over the last 20, 30 years, with a lot of people lifted out of poverty by economic growth and good policies in poorer countries.
He's not from a poor family, but he lives in the region known as the Subura, a poorer neighborhood in Rome, yet close to the center of the city.
But discrimination also occurs in more minor and subtle experiences, and so my second scale, called the Everyday Discrimination Scale, captures nine items that captures experiences like you're treated with less courtesy than others, you receive poorer service than others in restaurants or stores, or people act as if they're afraid of you.
In 1999, the National Academy of Medicine asked me to serve on a committee that found, concluded based on the scientific evidence, that blacks and other minorities receive poorer quality care than whites.
Radio waves have a wavelength that's long, and that makes their resolution poorer.
And that gap in words follows them as they enter school, and it results in later reading, poorer reading skills, a lack of success overall.
And I always had this mental picture that even though they may have been one of the poorer families in the village, they were one of the most respected.
And that is so that people in poorer countries can have a chance to heighten their standard of living by building some of the infrastructure that we have already built, such as roads, schools, hospitals, clean drinking water, electricity, and so on.
I want to live in that world of everybody rich now, but because of his poor choice, we are all in a poorer world.
And so this leads to the paradox that because the disease is only in the poorer countries, it doesn't get much investment.
Well, as a consequence of that thinking, over the last 30 years, in the USA alone, the top one percent has grown 21 trillion dollars richer while the bottom 50 percent have grown 900 billion dollars poorer, a pattern of widening inequality that has largely repeated itself across the world.
People were actually getting poorer than their parents, and sometimes even poorer than their grandparents had been.
Some of the poorer countries that have had the most experience with H5N1 have built up stockpiles; they're already expired.
But the poorer countries in Africa, the low-income countries down here, there the rates fall faster, of the percentage infected, because people still die.
If people in poorer countries can be hit by a crisis that starts in New York or starts in the sub-prime market of the United States of America.
But once the task called for even rudimentary cognitive skill, a larger reward led to poorer performance.
For poorer countries, China reduces tariffs so that Laos and Cambodia can sell their goods more cheaply and become dependent on exporting to China as well.
You can either live in a world which is poorer, which people in general don't like.
Uttar Pradesh, the biggest of the states here, is poorer and has a lower health than the rest of India.
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