Grameen sees its cash deposit multiply twelvefold on its way to the poverty-stricken borrower.
Some are sold by poverty-stricken parents hoping that their children will find employment as domestic servants.
Many of the victims were doctors, who are seen as symbols of some wealth in poverty-stricken Pakistan.
Even in the poorest regions of the world poverty-stricken people have cell phones.
Would the US rather buy oil directly from Canada, or buy Canadian oil shipped through a poverty-stricken and notoriously unreliable third-party country?
While this certainly could be a jackpot for the poverty-stricken country, it could also come at the price of Afghanistan's cultural heritage.
Even a cursory look told the teacher that the boy was poverty-stricken.
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In Chicago, the most poverty-stricken neighborhoods have the highest homicide rate.
Many in the poverty-stricken country, caught up in the quarrels of its Balkan neighbours, believed that a monarchy would provide peace and prosperity.
Even her welfare applications were scrutinized, forcing prosecutors to elicit juror sympathies while conceding during closing arguments that the poverty-stricken mother committed welfare fraud.
The city has been trying to clean-up the area for years, building expensive lofts and upscale restaurants and venues next to the poverty-stricken streets.
Xela Teco builds environmentally friendly technology that can be used to bring survival basics to poverty-stricken villages in the Mayan highlands: clean water, electricity and fuel.
Now, as the European Union wonders how best to deal with its sullen, poverty-stricken eastern neighbours, his thoughts on culture and history could hardly be more topical.
His poverty-stricken region suffers regular power cuts and other miseries.
The court heard she had wanted to work in the UK to provide for her poverty-stricken family in India, but was passed around three households in London and abused.
Unfortunately, a trip to Gorgona comes with a hefty price tag, making a visit an unattainable dream for many Colombians, especially the poverty-stricken residents of Guapi, to whom the island politically belongs.
Bused into wealthier districts, they would play and get beaten up, while the school would pocket a few thousand dollars and use the money to fund its own poverty-stricken athletics program.
Yes, one might think, with poverty-stricken Extremadura in mind.
Most well-educated Indians have moved off reservation land, leaving an ill-educated and poverty-stricken group that too easily abdicates control to the few remaining members who know how to pull the right levers.
California's immigrants also include a growing number of the elderly, who reach retirement without having paid into the system, poverty-stricken refugees, and illegal immigrants who are eligible for benefits until Proposition 187 has been endorsed by the courts.
Robichaux, now 45 and a longtime Louisiana educator, had become the principal of KIPP Phillips Preparatory, a new public charter school that had opened for summer school in July 2005 in New Orleans' poverty-stricken Seventh Ward.
But first we have a full day here in Ethiopia, where we will have a look at some of the humanitarian assistance operations the U.S. military has done here in the poverty-stricken Horn of Africa.
The young star of The Rocket, Sitthiphon Disamoe, stars as Aholo - a boy who enters a traditional rocket festival to help save his poverty-stricken family who have been uprooted for the construction of a dam.
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She was abandoned as a newborn at a hospital in Malaysia (to this day she has no clue as to who her biological parents are) and adopted by a poverty-stricken 63-year-old widow who was a habitual gambler.
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.
The draft agreement would give the leaders of the Bangsamoro more political and economic powers, promises the people a "just and equitable share" of the region's abundant natural resources, and pledges to address the needs of poverty-stricken communities.
Billy Elliot, which is set in a poverty-stricken British town in the 1980s and tells the story of a young boy discovering his love of dance, has been one of the most popular musicals since it debuted on Broadway in 2008.
We work closely with governments, policy makers, education leaders and many partners, including Intel, Dell, UNESCO and British Council, to transform teaching practices and education quality, deploy technology into more schools and get access to technology in the hands of more children around the world, including those in poverty-stricken communities.
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Despite its makeshift location, Shanghai Tang is not poverty-stricken -- it has seven other outposts in Hong Kong, not to mention plenty of business savvy and a powerful owner (the Richemont Group, a Swiss company that also controls other high-end brands like Cartier, Van Cleef and Arpels, Piaget and Montblanc).
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