"Any institution that seeks to make Asia less poor is something Asians should support, " says Sandilya.
It may also become a bit less poor as a result of Mr Abashidze's departure.
But as the continent becomes less poor, more and more Africans will acquire the means to migrate.
But if the poorest are to become less poor, they will need more than aid, however well-intentioned.
All of a sudden, they are a lot less poor, and it hasn't cost the West a cent.
Many poor people are drawn to somewhat less poor countries in the hope of finding work, just as they are to rich countries.
We, the rich people of the world, buy the products of those factories staffed by the poor but getting ever less poor people of the world.
Other states, some of them no less poor, have woken up to the crucial balance between people and jobs and the advantages that accrue from emancipating women through education and family planning.
NGOs are encouraged to move away from projects involving poorer people and communities both because the costs are likely to be greater (they are often more inaccessible) than dealing with the less poor, and because the prospects of achieving financial sustainability are worse.
It has not made the stone-breakers rich, just slightly less wretchedly poor.
Unless the summit promises to provide these resources without reducing their flows of aid to other less indebted poor countries, they will end up simply robbing Peter to pay Paul.
This should in theory have produced enormous sums for the rich and much less for the poor.
He pointed out bluntly that basing immigration on who has a relative here means most who come are less educated and poor.
There is a big constituency among middle class voters for the idea that the government should spend less on the poor and more on them.
Social safety nets are much better developed than they were in the 1930s, which may make the poor less desperate and constrain their anger at the rich.
Hooked on wealth redistribution they have taken taxing the rich to subsidise the poor to the next level, taxing the rich European countries to subsidise the poor less well governed euro-countries.
Clinton outperformed Obama with poor, less-educated voters, while Obama won among affluent primary voters.
The upper and middle classes are still enthusiastic about the Army, the poor far less so.
Mr Bhalla worries that this sort of spending does less to help the poor than, say, the creation of productive jobs.
To state the obvious, the poor are also less likely to make campaign contributions.
They fear that rich countries' debt problems will mean that less money is available for poor ones.
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Poor performers employ less effective teachers for smaller classes, recruiting the extra staff from further down the ability range.
It is hardly surprising that many poor defendants receive less than sterling representation.
Not only do poor people have less access to health care, Katz says, but they may also be getting confusing messages about screening.
The more they give away to help the poor, the less anybody else will care that the rich have so much money in the first place.
Worse, now that their bad technique still produced good shots, poor players had less incentive to put in the hard work needed to groove mechanically sound, pressure-proof and ultimately satisfying swings.
These astounding price tags reflect the increased costs for providing health care and accessing potable water (both for households and agricultural purposes) and the related decrease in tourism dollars, since places with poor sanitation are less attractive to travellers.
In a recent study, Ms Sawhill finds that the heads of non-poor families work an average of over 2, 000 hours a year, while the typical head of a poor family works less than 1, 000 hours a year.
Rich countries cut their tariffs by less in the Uruguay round than poor ones did.
How many jobs have you ever held that were offered by employers less wealthy than you, or poor?
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