Last year Affleck founded the Eastern Congo Initiative, an advocacy and grant-making group, to help improve the lives of impoverished people in eastern Congo.
If Romania were to default, the currency could collapse, imports would plummet, growth would slump even faster, and an already impoverished people would see their standard of living dive still further.
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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He is good at fleshing out the lives and concerns of the (often impoverished) people who stand to gain from reducing particular trade barriers, as well as the worries of those who oppose change.
But he may be best known for his gritty photo essays for Life magazine, images that documented the lives of impoverished and disenfranchised people, not only in the United States, but around the world.
In Yemen, the Arab world's most impoverished country, many people are struggling with basic survival.
Visas matter because many people from impoverished countries such as Georgia and Azerbaijan work in relatively prosperous Russia, sending money home to their families.
One of the central criticisms of government response to Katrina centers on the failure to reach out to the's city large impoverished population and make sure people were aware of mandatory evacuation orders and had the means to flee.
When they started, there was not one doctor in this impoverished region of 425, 000 people near the Tanzanian border, 7 miles from the nearest paved road.
Similarly, the case has no impact on Medicaid, the government program that does pay for these services for people who are both impoverished and need a high level of assistance.
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Often, the future of entire families is in the balance as these Roma, among the most poverty-stricken people in a deeply impoverished region, seek to forge mutually beneficial unions that will help them weather Bulgaria's brutal economic downturn.
Last year the chief minister of Chhattisgarh, a state where Maoists have a huge presence, pressed India's central government for a 10% surcharge on mining profits so that impoverished rural areas could be developed and people discouraged from joining the rebels.
So do those who had just begun to claw their way out of the slums but are now impoverished once again: this year perhaps another 100m people in East Asia will be unable to meet their basic needs.
It is the second-most impoverished U.S. city over half a million people.
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While visiting the mine, Fortuna Silver showed different areas where they work with the people of the area, namely the heavily impoverished area of San Jose del Progreso, 800 meters away from the mine.
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Such migrants include people of various incomes, but also a large impoverished population.
These people appear doomed to join the ranks of the impoverished elderly.
Over the period 1996-2008, about 10 percent of people who had not previously been on Medicaid became impoverished and ended up on the program.
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Recent research suggests that generous retirement benefits may result in fewer babies being born, since people no longer need children to insure against an impoverished old age.
By training young people who grew up as orphans, or come from impoverished villages and providing them with well-paid IT jobs DDD gives them with a way out of the poverty trap.
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The thought of inflicting pain on unlucky people bothered Julian, so instead of personally telling the impoverished family who lived in the house that they would have to leave he asked the county sheriff to evict them.
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), smoking cigarettes kills almost five million people worldwide every year and drains the continent's already impoverished public health services as the cost of treating tobacco-related disease soars.
Toscafund Asset Management disclosed in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it had acquired a 6.0% stake in Washington Mutual (nyse: WM - news - people ), giving a lift to the bank's impoverished shares.
All of the people in the Whitehall study had access to universal medical care, and none were impoverished.
People from all social classes are included in the records from 35 millionaires to the impoverished inmates of the nation's poorhouses.
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And since the bulk of poor people derive their incomes from agriculture, that has left us with two Indias, one rich, one impoverished.
But beyond the bows, the royal attire and certain luxuries that come with her title, being a king in an impoverished place like Otuam is all about dealing with the pressing needs of the community and improving the lives of the people, says Bartels.
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