But even if countries were fined for being poor, mismanaged, or crisis-causing, why should politicians care?
One of the distinguishing features of being poor is being dependent on one or two exports.
"We're very concerned that what the bill does is it punishes people for being poor, " Appleby said.
The report says that being poor damages childhood and harms children's future prospects.
Developed countries like Britain have recognised that being poor is a relative concept.
Those neighborhoods were insulated from mainstream life in a way that made being poor in New Orleans a special hardship.
So being poor in America is much better than being poor in Brazil, at least when it comes to shelter and care.
Being poor in Brazil, until only recently, was seen as quite normal.
The report follows a National Audit Office analysis published in September which warned that the rapid expansion of academies risked being poor value for money.
From being poor in oil, China is now the fifth largest oil producer in the world, behind Saudi Arabia, Russia, the United States and Iran, but ahead of Canada, Mexico, Venezuela, Kuwait and Nigeria.
The gripe about Britain being poor at gestating bold entrepreneurs is an old one: the stereotype is of boffins who are good at generating ideas, but lose out to thrusting Americans when it comes to monetising them.
In 1960 only 15% of federal income tax returns had a zero tax liability, due mostly to low taxable income, a standard deduction, the personal exemption, the dependent exemption, and the Earned Income Tax Credit (a direct subsidy to people for being poor).
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The jobs you discribe here are middle class jobs and middle class people have to watch thier money even more so then the poor because the poor are already poor so it can almost all but get better for them but middle class live on a line that can break them into being poor class with one financial crisis.
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When they are not being blamed for recording poor results, they are being blamed for not recording poor results.
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"People are always getting bad news about Bangladesh, hearing about it being a poor country, " she said.
Bush has been seen, on a number of occasions, as being a poor responder to crisis, and I think we all have reason to be very concerned.
For example, Gov. Chris Christie has been a persistent critic of the state's practice of sending more aid to 31 districts identified by courts as being particularly poor or underfunded.
Tevez demanded transfer most likely due to the fact Mancini being a poor man-manager, as his compatriot like Zanetti and Cambiasso would have told him what kind of man Mancini is.
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Mancini had a reputation of being a poor man-manager.
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The families of many underweight children are suffering more from a lack of health care and nutritional advice than from being too poor to be able to buy food, says Mr Paes de Barros.
Based on the excellent 2004 book by the reporters Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind, who offer lucid commentary in the movie but cannot save it from being a poor substitute for their own hard work.
And being very poor at shooting free-throws is a killer in any basketball, and in college basketball specifically, because games will come down to the end, and your team will need to hit free-throws to win.
Owais Shah had a decent tournament despite being curiously demoted against India, and also being a poor fielder, while Paul Collingwood lost his touch, just as he did when he last tried to captain England at the same time.
As a result the writer gets all up in arms about how people without HDTVs are being called poor slobs, and worse , that the integrity of sport has been compromised because god forbid, there might be a moment where no camera angle shows every single player on the ice.
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