These same people have now become impoverished by state planning.

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Instead, that city, in its day Iraq's number two, has become an impoverished shadow of its former economic glory.

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Second, if the mines actually do get built and go into production, each mine may create over 750 new jobs, which would become available in an impoverished area of the state.

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Impoverished kampongs have become modern cities bustling with commerce.

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On Wednesday evening, Russia's government-run Channel One devoted an hour of prime time to a raucous talk show about an impoverished family that has become a reluctant national symbol of the issue.

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Some Arab analysts have sounded more informed warnings, fretting that a truncated northern Sudan could become an Islamist police state and that the impoverished South may soon relapse into internal strife.

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And as the plight of Egypt's overwhelmingly impoverished citizenry becomes ever more acute, the regime will become increasingly unstable.

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As a recipient of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, Yunnus began offering microloans to impoverished people in Bangladesh in 1976, thereby empowering them to become economically self-sufficient and proving the microcredit model that has now been replicated around the world.

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