Will they again be dirt poor?
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Neither is a man of La Mancha, but the two wandering Americans named Andy Roddick and Mardy Fish may feel like Don Quixote going against malevolent windmills today.
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Comment is free: Gary Younge:  The Bush years have been so crushing that progressives have set their expectations low.
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A new journal focuses on common ailments that afflict the worldâs poor.
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Poverty can be quite educational. When you've got only so much money to spend, you'll think carefully about the goods you're buying.
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It looks like the nation will have to find another high-profile
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BRUSSELS, Sep 13 (IPS) - Old tyres might sound like the unlikely cause of a  diplomatic row over potential implications for the level of  protection poor countries can offer to the environment or public  health.
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By Frederick Melo, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  Sep. 18--So, you think you're poor?   In this courthouse, you're going to have to prove it.
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Government to be publicly castigated this week over failure to help poor people - by fuel poverty watchdog
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The continent has been ravaged by months of rain. Is it paying for the sins of rich countries?
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Many of the poorest people in the United States are still struggling to recover from the effects of a recession that ended six years ago, making them very vulnerable as the country stands on the brink of a new downturn.
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Tropical Storm Jeanne was just the last straw for the Caribbean island nation of Haiti. are eating dirt and mud due to an iron deficiency ...&quot; said Dr. John Carrol of Haitian Hearts.
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BRUSSELS, Dec. 13 (IPS) - By 2030, 1.2 billion people in developing countries  will belong to a global middle class, up from 400 million today.  The increase in wealth will make income inequality and  environmental pressures more acute, predicts the World Bank in a  report on 'Managing the Next Wave of Globalisation'.
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Comment is free: George Monbiot: It's easy to blame the poor for growing pressure on the world's resources. But still the wealthy west takes the lion's share
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World leaders are hoping to put a spotlight on the growing gap between rich and poor and the failure to find $50 billion a year to help more than one billion people escape extreme poverty and start sharing ...
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A fifth year of powerful economic growth in East Asia and the Pacific has driven the number of people living in poverty in the region to its lowest level ever, but the World Bank warned Tuesday that oil prices could dampen the boom next year.
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By Ben Winslow Deseret Morning News  The Fundamentalist LDS Church's financial empire is land rich -- but cash poor.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia -- As relief officials struggle to reach homeless tsunami survivors, another concern is quietly making the rounds of donor meetings: the threat of corruption.