Dirt poor, Hum Huy ekes out a living farming with his wife, eight children and brother.
His family was literally dirt poor, sharecropping corn, wine, olive oil and sheep for a landlord who extracted 50% in payment.
He said, the biggest challenge that I have is that my parents are too demanding. (Laughter.) He said, even if somebody is dirt poor, they are insisting that their kids are getting the best education.
But, without a sense that it can be done locally, a perspective helped along by stories that it was once done by regular people (most of whom were themselves dirt poor when they started) who lived and invented in every formerly successful American city, it will never happen again.
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He was an Italian, from dirt-poor Emilia-Romagna, who followed his family to France to find work.
For years skeptics told him his programs were too complex or expensive to work in dirt-poor settings.
How the author got from a dirt-poor Appalachian childhood to the New York Times and a Pulitzer Prize.
That came in Dantewada, a remote, forested, dirt-poor and sparsely populated district in the south of Chhattisgarh state.
Democrats thus were able to accumulate seniority that could be used to direct military spending to their dirt-poor districts.
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His son recalls there were hundreds of students lined up outside the school, which was in a dilapidated building in a dirt-poor village.
The Rio Grande Valley, at the southern tip of Texas, was once a dirt-poor region of few hopes where voting was aggressively regimented.
Iraqi Kurds, roughly estimated at five million, have stunningly rebuilt a dirt-poor and traumatised society from scratch since they gained their autonomy in 1991.
By the time Nepalese authorities caught up with Hari Narayan Lam in 2003, this organ broker had convinced 50 dirt-poor Nepalese to part with a kidney.
The biggest dam enthusiast of all is dirt-poor Laos, which hopes to enrich itself by building enough hydropower projects to become the battery of South-East Asia.
Three months after they arrived, they arrested an illiterate man and woman, both dirt-poor herders living together for years with their animals outside the town of Aguelhok.
Last month Mr Gandhi led attempts to revive the local Congress party in Bihar, a dirt-poor but populous eastern state which has just held elections for its legislature.
Part of the benefit, everyone agrees, is that there are huge benefits to not being dirt-poor: clean drinking water, good medical care and safe housing, to name a few.
Were these countries to open themselves to the latest seeds--and even if more developed nations remained ideologically GMO-averse, thereby crimping exports--the four would reap productivity gains, dirt-poor Bangladesh most of all.
"This has been my baby for two years, " says Faisal, 38, who has built Ruba (he is vague about the source of the name) on his dirt-poor family's trading origins in Pakistan's frontier provinces.
T-shirts (all valuable items for Cambodia's dirt-poor farmers).
In childhood he was told by his father, Manuel, the story of the 20-year-old, dirt-poor farm boy named George Washington Perry who caught a 22.3 pound bass in Georgia in 1932, establishing the current record.
He magnanimously excuses The Economist's poor record of predicting the price of oil: our suggestion in 1999 that oil would remain dirt cheap was conventional wisdom at the time, he says soothingly.
President LUIZ INACIO LULA DA SILVA (Brazil): (Through translator) My mother, who was poor, would make me and my brother lift up the sofa so she could clean the dirt that no one saw - just like my government - we expose the dirt that had been pushed under the rug and we never stopped an investigation.
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