abject poverty

Thanks to years of spectacular growth, more people have been pulled from abject poverty in modern Asia than at any other time in history.

The country, a declining communist industrial power when he took control, fell into abject poverty under his rule.

As well as alleviating abject poverty, the scheme is credited with helping to put a floor under domestic consumption.

Generating the economic growth needed to lift people out of abject poverty means ushering corporations into putative paradise.

Though the official number of those in abject poverty is small, many more are yet to rise above the difficult fight for subsistence.

But residents of Liangshan say abject poverty, drug abuse and a lack of jobs have forced many children to head for factories.

The China I first saw in 1975, steeped in abject poverty and chaos, was like a different plant compared to today's powerhouse nation.

Tom's company was bankrupt during the Great Depression; then, he was in abject poverty.

Health care and social security have been made available. 1. 3 billion people have moved from abject poverty to a much improved livelihood.

When people are living in such abject poverty with no hope and no future, an oil spill almost certainly barely touches their awareness.

However, I described the prospects for soot are too tempting, never owning successor. Live their lives without fear of abject poverty.

I threw myself in to student life, suffering the hangovers , the late nights and the abject poverty along with my fellow freshmen.

They are overwhelmed by both responsibility in industry management and also overwhelmed when they are raised in abject poverty.

Overcoming oppression and abject poverty and terrible disease is hard.

Lest we forget, for all its manifest flaws, a liberal trading system has delivered hundred of millions of people from abject poverty.

Even the offer of US dollars in the midst of abject poverty produced only shrugs, because there was simply no food to buy.

Both countries still have hundreds of millions of people living in abject poverty, especially in rural areas.

Industrialization began in the developing countries only a few decades ago and many of their people still live in abject poverty, he said.

The boy felt shamed of his abject poverty.

They were living in such abject poverty that they could not even afford the bare necessities.

and the abject poverty, crime and joblessness just outside.

Even though 60% of its people continue to live in abject poverty, Tajikistan has experienced steady economic growth since 1997.

the most abject slaves joined in the revolt; abject poverty.

abject Both of them died in abject poverty.

Whenever I think of man's abject poverty, his rot, his spreading gangrene, I am gripped by mortal despair.

But economic mismanagement and rampant corruption have kept the people in abject poverty.

More than half the country lived in abject poverty, many in muddy, disease-ridden shanty towns.

Abraham Lincoln was born into abject poverty 200 years ago.

I no longer wanted to live in abject poverty.

Effectively, 80 percent of the world's progress in ending abject poverty has happened in China, independent of foreign aid.

in the old society he was finally reduced to a state of abject poverty

All ought to refrain form marriage who cannot avoid abject poverty for their children;

He was now living in abject poverty