Sentences with phrase «desperate poverty»

Many people there live in desperate poverty and have to walk miles for water.

For a country with such desperate poverty, this is extremely important.

The idea that unabated, incremental growth is the formula to eradicate poverty will leave us all ultimately poorer and make the pockets of desperate poverty more entrenched.

The prime minister used his opening speech to an international conference on Somalia taking place in London to warn that, despite political advances in Somalia like a new president, government and parliament elected by representatives of all clans, the country «still faces desperate poverty».

Suffering from desperate poverty and oppressive social inequalities, and lacking the advantage of going against «limited monarchies,» they had to be social revolutions.

Since China adopted free market principles, over one billion Chinese have risen from absolute desperate poverty, and inequality has skyrocketed in China.

Listeners will be moved by Miles» and Graham's commanding interpretations of Nigerian - born Akpan's harrowing stories of the innocence and resilience of children who witness unspeakable violence and endure desperate poverty.

Carla, as an adolescent, lives in desperate poverty with her younger brother and grandmother in Guatemala after her mother illegally immigrates to the U.S. in order to provide for her family.

Smartphones allow farmers and textile workers in the developing world to start small businesses and move out of desperate poverty.

Somalia still faces desperate poverty.

Deepika Kumari was born in desperate poverty in rural India, but a chance encounter with archery eventually led her to compete in the Olympics.

Even before the end of World Refugee Year, however, attention was also turning to the desperate poverty of many people.

Some, mostly from abroad, have desperate poverty of everything but their God given talent and are easy prey for the sharks who attach themselves to top sportspeople.

«The past five years of austerity have led to desperate poverty,» he told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire.

This was a time of desperate poverty, and indeed followed years of poverty and famine during the Great Depression and World War II.

Greenies like to talk about «renewables» providing a resilient society, but the amount of energy needed to lift the developing countries out of desperate poverty will not be provided by expensive and dilute power from wind turbines, solar panels, or chicken manure.

What is clear is that desperate poverty still exists in Scotland today, which requires a response alongside that of the vital care that is needed for those suffering in so many other parts of the world.