It mitigated the pain and hunger of poverty, but often at the cost of undermining the self-esteem, aspirations and work of low-income people.

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Ms Tymoshenko has chronic back pain and is on hunger strike.

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But Jean still gripped his stomach with his hands and clenched his face in pain to convey the urgency of his hunger.

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And today, a people who once knew the pain of an empty stomach now feed those who hunger abroad.

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