As a result, Mongolia, though poor, had a decent enough social-welfare system, and few Mongolians fell through its cracks.
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Healthy early demand does not always translate to strong demand over time, though poor initial demand is difficult for vendors to recover from.
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On the left, reducing dependency is sometimes seen as a bad thing, even though poor people are the biggest victims of big government.
Though poor ocean conditions have been blamed for a nosedive in chinook salmon in Alaska this year, sockeye have done well, not only in the Columbia, but in Canadian and Alaskan rivers as well.
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Though the poor may still be with them, in the future Americans will be less aware of it.
For example, Cambodia agreed to stop importing generic drugs after 2007, even though existing poor members have until 2016 to start honouring drug patents.
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This history has spawned a deep-seated fear of formal default (though many poor countries have had de facto defaults as their debts have been rescheduled).
Though navigating poor and confusing disclosure in the Financial Footnotes to find the truth about corporate profitability and valuation takes hard work and expertise, I believe investors who do it sleep better at night.
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"When I first moved here there was a sense of community, even though we were poor, " he said.
Even though rich, poor and middle-income Americans may share the same geography, we make and spend our money in very different ways.
At the same time, one argument made against reform--as though Congress' poor track record with other "reforms" isn't enough reason for lawmakers to leave it alone--is that with health care compromising 16% of gross domestic product, reform here could be particularly harmful to the broader economy.
He is seen as the president's creature and, though popular with the poor, looks a lightweight to most other people.
Perhaps the real problem, though, is not poor diet but poor education.
It is still, though, a very poor country: a significant chunk of its population experiences a kind of material deprivation that has, thankfully, been absent from advanced Western countries for a couple of generations.
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Governments have rarely dared try to evict the occupants of the slums because they are condemned for destroying the homes of the poor, though about 70, 000 relatively new dwellings have been bulldozed in the past month.
Though both rich and poor countries have been working to get the talks back on track since then, a substantial reduction of the rich world's bloated farm subsidies is crucial to bringing their poorer brethren back into the fold.
Kazakhstan is a poor country, though getting richer, and salaries and pensions are seldom paid on time.
Yet though much of Vojvodina remains poor, some parts have done well.
Then, I further discovered, Lamb offered money to help Hunt's family outside the prison though he himself was as poor as a man could be.
Once again, though, it is the poor who have born the brunt of the disaster, with the biggest killer not the earthquake itself but poorly-constructed houses, our correspondent adds.
Since then he has focused on other forms of structural reform notably promoting charter schools and closing down poor schools (though he would give vouchers to pupils from closed-down schools).
Ever since the President's Panel in 1962, she had acquired a sovereign presence on the national stage, and even though she herself was a poor administrator, she felt comfortable in evoking grand designs and directing their execution...
Rather than intervening in the market to manipulate prices, the government could respond to a winter fuel crisis by giving all its heating-oil subsidies to poor consumers (though that would do nothing to win over other voters).
Poor mimics, though they may not do as well as a good mimic in an area where its model lives, will tend to do better in an area where the model is entirely absent, but where there is another model of the same general type.
And since entrepreneurship plays a big part in creating jobs, especially in the phase when young businesses expand rapidly, government should do all it can to encourage more of it though in view of its poor track record in this area, that should be mainly a matter of supporting (rather than obstructing) private-sector-led initiatives.
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Though few Americans say that the poor have only themselves to blame, many believe it.
There's a few problems with the implementation beyond the obvious lack of autonomy for the poor target creature, though.
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