Partly because of that failure, and despite sharp falls in the poverty rate, appalling Numbers of Indians are still desperately poor.
Johnson: Many of the peoples you describe are, from our point of view, desperately poor.
But its ability to deliver grain to the needy is strangled by the junta's controls, particularly in desperately poor western Myanmar.
They are desperately poor, no-one has a job, and sending a girl to school seemed an absurd luxury.
Remember, it was less than ten years ago that the likes of Porto and Liverpool were winning the Champions League, Greece winning the Euros, a desperately poor Brazil team winning the 2002 World Cup.
By 2000, most children in Third Worm towns will be born to such desperately poor families. Already more than 100 million homeless children struggle to survive on the streets.
The mother of a family of desperately poor farmers dies.
TERESA VEGA's first son was two when a flood carried rubbish, dead animals and disease through the canals of Oaxaca, her desperately poor home state in southern Mexico.
Taxi drivers in the Chinese city of Hangzhou, whose strike entered its third day on Wednesday, are angry, intermittently violent, and desperately poor.
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