This is a chronic problem plaguing the most impoverished countries.
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He promised to transfer the land to the country's most impoverished.
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"The most impoverished villages in Israel are the Bedouin villages," he said.
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"We landed in St. Louis, like the most impoverished part," she said.
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It would bring economic benefits to some of Canada's most impoverished communities.
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It would bring economic benefits to some of Canada's most impoverished communities.
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Commonly referred to as Isaan, it is Thailand's most impoverished and underdeveloped region.
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It prompted a trip to one of the most impoverished corners of the country.
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The state of Bihar, in eastern India, is one of the country's most impoverished states.
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These are numbers you wouldn't see anywhere, except in perhaps the most impoverished third world countries.
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They are two of the most impoverished areas in Mexico, and were likely hit the hardest.
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The state loan program, intended to help the most impoverished students, saddles them with crippling debt.
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But can its for-profit model work in some of the most impoverished places on Earth?
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The province, one of Iran's most impoverished, is also part of a well-known drug trafficking route.
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Haiti, the most impoverished nation in the Western Hemisphere, took a direct hit from Hurricane Matthew yesterday.
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The Women's March has mobilized millions of women across the world, even in the most impoverished communities.
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Like an invisible glue holding together the flimsy fabric of one of the UK's most impoverished cities.
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"These products are never going to meet demands of the most impoverished," Tyedmers said over the phone.
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Chiapas and Oaxaca, home to about 9 million people, are two of the most impoverished areas in Mexico.
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India is home to over 30 percent of the world's 385 million most impoverished children, says the World Bank.
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Money from yarsagumba has given some of the world's most impoverished people access to electricity, hospital care and education.
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Funds would sit in an interest-bearing account, and by age 18, the most impoverished kids would have nearly $50,000.
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According to London's poverty profile, four of those five high-ranking regions are among the most impoverished in the capital.
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A new policy designed to attract investment to low income communities may not benefit rural areas and the most impoverished communities.
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With nearly 34 percent of the population living below the poverty line, San Bernardino is the most impoverished city in California.
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Thus, our nudge makes it possible for even the most impoverished candidates to command the voters' attention when it matters most.
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How he emerged from one of the city's most impoverished, drug-infested neighborhoods to become a standout at Simeon Career Academy.
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All of this material is used to create a fascinating portrait of extreme poverty in one of Santiago's most impoverished barrios.
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Saudi Arabia and the United States have long accused Iran of arming the Houthis in Yemen, the Arab world's most impoverished country.
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"Roma remain the most impoverished and unprotected part of Ukrainian society," Roma activist Myroslav Horvat, of the World Roma Organization in Uzhhorod, said.
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Republicans say that while the state's most impoverished residents will still be covered, the new plan is needed to curtail health-care costs.
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In the early 2000s, the Mexican government launched an ambitious effort to build affordable housing for millions of the country's most impoverished citizens.
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Mr. Rajapaksa's leading opponent, Mr. Premadasa, 52, of the United National Front, draws considerable grass-roots support from Sri Lanka's most impoverished districts.
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But people, like Williams-Preston, who remain uneasy about the mayor say much of that money flowed everywhere but the most impoverished communities.
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Many of the world's most impoverished people are forced to live in dangerous conditions, some near garbage sites which they scour for food.
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West Point, the most impoverished and overpopulated community in Liberia, was hit hard by the outbreak, and health facilities were overwhelmed at the time.
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The latter is aided by the fact the poppies are farmed in some of the most impoverished and politically charged regions of the world.
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One of the most impoverished states in Mexico, poverty and inequality were rife, with Mayan people by and large the most deprived of all.
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Should an entire district be penalized for the chronic low performance of one majority-black school in one of the city's most impoverished neighborhoods?
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The district contains the renowned Texas Medical Center as well as multiple food deserts and some of Houston's most impoverished and crime-ridden neighborhoods.
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The poverty rate in Chiapas, already the most impoverished state in Mexico, has risen in recent years to more than three-quarters of the population.
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Most impoverished children lose the nutritious free school lunch during the summer months, according to a new report by the Food Research and Action Center.
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According to the UNICEF, in 93, among Tanzania's most impoverished citizens, a quarter of girls and women ages 15 to 49 have undergone the procedure.
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Pine Ridge, where Mr. Sherman lived until he was 12, is one the country's largest reservations in size, and one of its most impoverished communities.
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Detroit ranks as America's most impoverished large city; a September FBI report determined it had the highest violent crime rate among large cities in 284.
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Millions of Americans remain uninsured and some of the most impoverished states don't have coverage for some low-income residents because they haven't expanded Medicaid.
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Mozambique, already one of the world's most impoverished countries, is still on the hook for the loans, some of which the government did not disclose.
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The top referring countries using DWB's portal are the Central African Republic, South Sudan, and Malawi, some of the most impoverished nations in the world.
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And in one of China's most impoverished regions, the facility may also break new ground as a lucrative tourism industry sets its eyes on the stars.
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Women flock to Sampat Pal Devi's small painted pink house in Uttar Pradesh, India's most impoverished state, where she lives alone, seeking her advice and protection.
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Many of the migrants are families trying to escape poverty and violent crime in Central America, one of the most impoverished areas in the Western Hemisphere.
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Daughters of Destiny follows five Indian girls who belong to the Dalit caste—India's lowest, most impoverished caste—as they attend a school called Shanti Bhavan.
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But Mr. James prevailed, criticizing Mr. Gibson as having not done enough for the city's most impoverished residents, pointing to continuing high joblessness, crime and blight.
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The pair stopped to catch their breath, and then continued toward the Foxwood Apartments, a residential complex in one of the most impoverished sections of Panama City, Florida.
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Fuller Park had the highest lead exposure rate, 2500 percent, and is one of the most impoverished areas in Chicago; 2000 percent of its residents live in poverty.
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The guns are used not only in crimes like robbery and drug dealing, but also in a struggle for respect in some of the city's most impoverished neighborhoods.
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The cost of a seven-day reporting trip to one of the world's most impoverished and insulated countries came to about $2,500 each, all paid to various government agencies.
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"Always you will find it is people who are from the most impoverished and most disadvantaged communities, who are drawn into prostitution," said Moran from the charity SPACE International.
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After all, how does one make light of the conditions of people living in one of the most impoverished places on earth, under the thumb of a repressive regime?
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Hers was a story like tens of thousands of other artisans, mostly women, living in Payatas, a district in metropolitan Manila — one of the most impoverished regions in the Philippines.
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A 2014 study by Oxford University, using data on the percentage of the population considered destitute, ranked Bangladesh as the third-most impoverished in South Asia, after Afghanistan and India.
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Dobard also said most of New Orleans' public schools were still primarily attended by the city's most impoverished students and urged more middle-class families to participate in public schools.
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Mr. Saleh, considered one of the most cunning autocrats in the Arab world, stepped down in early 2012 after three decades of leading Yemen, the Middle East's most impoverished country.
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Returning to Accra two days later, I dragged my reluctant children, now wearied by the many teachable moments of this journey, to Nima, one of the city's most impoverished districts.
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Founded by a local Catholic priest, Fonkoze works with the most impoverished women in Haiti over 18 months to get them earning regular incomes through raising livestock or selling merchandise.
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The Central African Republic is one of the world&aposs most impoverished countries, destabilized by deadly sectarian violence since 2013 with thousands of people of killed and hundreds of thousands displaced.
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Only a few years ago, Brazil was widely considered to be a major success story after years of progressive governance produced enormous gains for working people and Brazil's most impoverished residents.
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The retirement age increase effectively transfers almost a full percentage point of the Russia's economy away from the country's most impoverished citizens and hands it over to the wealthiest, according Aslund.
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After independence, Sri Lanka endured many forms of violence, with long-lasting impacts on Tamils and Muslims, especially for the women and the most impoverished and caste-oppressed of these minority communities.
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The US territory has been in a recession since 2006 and according to the US census data, poverty rates are almost at 50%, double that of the most impoverished state in America.
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Online charter schools here are educating one out of every 2500 high school students, yet their graduation rates are worse than those in the state's most impoverished cities, including Cleveland and Youngstown.
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For many, the pride was especially poignant because the winner, Rafaela Silva, is a black woman who grew up in the City of God, one of Rio's most impoverished favelas, or slums.
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It also caused all forms of childhood deaths to plummet by up to 50 percent in resource-poor countries, and up to 90 percent in the most impoverished corners of the world.
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As we approach the Hanoi summit, our country can fight for those in the most impoverished contexts across North Korea while remaining firmly committed to denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula and building lasting peace.
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To make these photographs, Gill recruited the cooperation of a village of traditional Adivasi paper mâché artists from the Konkana tribe in one of the most impoverished districts in Maharashtra in west-central India.
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The group paid a visit to some of the most impoverished areas on the continent as part of Shining Hope For Communities, an organization that provides clean water and free healthcare to all-girls schools.
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The outage left some of the most impoverished and some of the most affluent people in the city alike stranded on high floors of apartment buildings without water, electricity, or elevator service for nearly a week.
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According to the Pew Institute, children under the age of 18 are the most impoverished age population of Americans, and African-American children are almost four times as likely as white children to be in poverty.
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Tribal communities in the area are among the most impoverished in the country, a characteristic they share with parts of Appalachia, another swath of America that is bearing a disproportionate burden of the coal industry's demise.
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Thread takes plastic trash from some of the world's most impoverished countries, while also cleaning up the neighborhoods in those communities, and turns the trash into what it claims is the most responsible fabric on the planet.
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The land rights of indigenous people in so-called "scheduled areas" with a tribal majority are protected by the Constitution, yet they are among the "most vulnerable, most impoverished" groups, said Namita Wahi, a fellow at CPR.
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While this separate project is situated at the opposite end of the country, it shows how one of the world's most impoverished nations is working to leverage unprecedented inflows of foreign direct investment in order to develop.
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"The bank has effectively dismantled thirty years of environmental and social protections for the world's most impoverished and vulnerable peoples," said Stephanie Fried, executive director of the Ulu Foundation, a non-profit group focused on forest preservation.
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To the extent that this empirical claim, by an esteemed Princeton scholar, leads policymakers to reduce international aid, or causes charitable donors to redirect their money away from the world's most impoverished people, it is also dangerous.
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When it was started in the early 2000s, the program, run by a Brazilian nonprofit group, had a straightforward mission: to alleviate undernutrition among children who were not getting enough to eat in the city's most impoverished neighborhoods.
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Land rights became a cornerstone of his revolutionary socialism; Chávez seized millions of hectares of land from wealthy landowners, which he promised to transfer to the most impoverished classes in an effort to ensure "food security" for the country.
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WASHINGTON — When Congress created its academic support fund three years ago, lawmakers had in mind a pot of money that would increase student access to art and music, mental health and technology programs at the nation's most impoverished schools.
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By Michael Hardy Photos: jorge taboada In the early 2000s, the Mexican government launched an ambitious effort to build affordable housing for millions of the country's most impoverished citizens, ultimately spending more than $100 billion on hundreds of sprawling housing developments.
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And it's really hurting people the most in the most impoverished areas like the inner-city of Milwaukee which —because we're one of the most segregated [cities] in the country—it's a largely African-American community that's completely getting ignored.
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On Pro Basketball Now that some of the N.B.A.'s middling (or worse) players are among the richest athletes in professional team sports, the league should summon its inner Bernie Sanders and spare some comparative loose change for its most impoverished.
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The Golden Triangle was for years one of the most impoverished and underdeveloped places on the planet, but that's changing thanks to China's One Belt One Road initiative -- a massive infrastructure development project intended to help connect global, predominately developing economies.
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At a time when the American economy is recovering from the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression, the ugly truth is that we're experiencing a persistent hurdle to spreading economic opportunity in the most impoverished communities across our country.
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Fixes As a farmworker in Orange Cove, one of California's most impoverished cities, Lorena Gomez starts her day just past dawn, teetering on a ladder to pluck fruit and place it in a canvas sack that weighs heavily across her chest.
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NGOs that provide harm reduction programs in some of the most impoverished parts of Budapest, which are home to many Roma people who live in deep poverty, have had funding and support from Hungary's right wing government cut to shreds.
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"The door is wide open to extremist groups that use charities to infiltrate the most impoverished societies, to start educating them on their own, implanting radical extremist ideas, and recruiting the unemployed who used to be employed by UNRWA," Kahwaji said.
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BHUBANESWAR, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - India's eastern Odisha state is the first region in the country to give transgender people social welfare benefits - such as a pension, housing and food grains - usually allocated for only the most impoverished, an official said on Thursday.
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Yet here, in the wealthiest nation on earth, the conditions I saw on my visit with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus were worse than those I saw in Haiti, the most impoverished country in the Western Hemisphere, after their most challenging and devastating disaster.
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Beyond Mr. Trump's ridicule, some American Indian activists have pressured Ms. Warren to be more straightforward about her heritage and to also be a more aggressive advocate for the tribes, some of which account for the most impoverished communities in the country.
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Climate change is a worry for me because it particularly affects the global self and the most impoverished people, so although I'm not involved in big climate marches or anything like that, I'm involved in general anti-capitalist activism that addresses climate change, I feel.
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"Flint residents, who are majority black or African-American and among the most impoverished of any metropolitan area in the United States, did not enjoy the same degree of protection from environmental and health hazards as that provided to other communities," the report concluded.
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"Flint residents, who are majority black or African-American and among the most impoverished of any metropolitan area in the United States, did not enjoy the same degree of protection from environmental and health hazards as that provided to other communities," the report said.
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Lai says he became an odd jobs guy at a textile factory, making 503 Hong Kong dollars ($7) a month and living in an apartment with 10 others in the slum neighborhood of Sham Shui Po -- still one of Hong Kong's most impoverished districts.
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But perhaps five years ago, Barbara visited me at The Times to discuss the Global Health Corps, a public-health analogue to the Peace Corps and Teach for America that sends more than 100 recent college graduates annually into the most impoverished areas of the world.
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If this is not done, those programs will continue to concentrate the most impoverished and dependent segments of the population into the central-city ghettos where there is already a critical gap between the needs of the population and the public resources to deal with them.
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Dressed in costly designer labels, kilts and sporrans, suits with short pants, Savile Row tailoring accessorized with bowlers or ebony canes, they parodied the structures of class even as they demonstrated adherence to a way of life few in one of the world's most impoverished countries will ever know.
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Op-Ed Contributor It seems impossible to imagine the most impoverished, backward communist regime in Asia, run by a madman and recovering from a crippling famine, should set out to build a long-range missile that could deliver a nuclear weapon all the way to the United States.
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Environmental injustice at the heart of crisis "Flint residents, who are majority Black or African American and among the most impoverished of any metropolitan area in the United States, did not enjoy the same degree of protection from environmental and health hazards as that provided to other communities," the report states.
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SHANGHAI — This bustling Chinese city has a North Korean restaurant called Pyongyang that is owned and operated by the North Korean government, features singers belting out tributes to Kim Jong Un, and likely brings in hundreds of thousands of dollars per year to one of the most impoverished countries on earth.
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In this jaw-dropping investigation, Tom Warren and Katie J.M. Baker laid bare the human cost of the World Wide Fund for Nature's war on poaching — exposing how one of the world's most cherished charities has funded shocking human rights abuses against some of the most impoverished people on the planet.
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"What bothers me the most about this is Prime Minister Trudeau raised the hopes of the most impoverished people of this country, but he forgot to say, 'I'm just kidding,'" Bob Chamberlin, the NDP candidate for Parliament from Nanaimo-Ladysmith said in September at his campaign office in British Columbia.
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In north Columbia, where the average life expectancy in one predominantly black neighborhood is 20 years shorter than in a white, wealthy area two miles away, black residents of the most impoverished communities say reparations, to them, represent equity in opportunity, and not being trapped in a system of dependence upon federal assistance.
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When 46-year-old Vanessa Mae Rodel first met Edward Snowden on the doorstep of her run-down apartment, she saw herself in him — a refugee looking for safety, comfort and security in one of the most impoverished areas in Hong Kong after fleeing his country "He looked very upset and worried," she recalled.
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Without projects to educate and provide access to clean water, more children from the most impoverished parts of the world would spend time collecting water instead of learning in classrooms, more women and girls would be at risk of sexual assault as they walked many miles to fetch water, and more diseases would spread.
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While such schools can work well for the relatively small number of families in poor communities who have salaries, says Keith Lewin, a professor emeritus of development and international education at the University of Sussex in Britain who has opposed the model, it is unrealistic to expect the most impoverished families to be able to pay.
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The saga of the detainees from the Beir Ahmed prison in Aden is one of many tragic twists in the brutal civil war that has roiled the Arab world&aposs most impoverished country where a Saudi-led coalition, of which the UAE is a part, is fighting Yemen&aposs Shiite rebels to restore to power the country&aposs internationally recognized government.
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"Faced by an Administration that has relentlessly sought to cut foreign development and humanitarian relief programs it incorrectly views as charity, I sincerely appreciated Administrator Green's commitment to defending programs and funds that are proven to advance US national security, help lift up the world's most impoverished, and build resilient and prosperous communities that in turn promote global stability," Sen.
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On September 4, Roc Nation and the NFL announced that it would make a $20163,000 donation that would be evenly split by two Chicago organizations: BBF (Better Boys Foundation) Family Services, which provides services to youth and families in Chicago's North Lawndale neighborhood, and Crushers Club, which runs boxing, music, and leadership programs to support young people in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood, one of the city's most impoverished areas.
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That's why when even progressive-leaning former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine and others call for a ban on the purchase of soda and other such products with SNAP benefits, as they did a few years ago, it feels like a slap in the face, not an effort to combat one of the known causes of obesity and "Mountain Dew mouth" in some of the most impoverished areas of the country.
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The Hong Kong residents who hid Edward Snowden are seeking refugee status in Canada The Hong Kong residents who hid Edward Snowden are seeking refugee status in Canada When 46-year-old Vanessa Mae Rodel first met Edward Snowden on the doorstep of her run-down apartment, she saw herself in him — a refugee looking for safety, comfort and security in one of the most impoverished areas in Hong Kong after fleeing his country "He looked very upset and worried," she recalled.
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