He thinks the region needs to invest twice as much if poor infrastructure is not to hold back growth.
He fancied being a politician, and being made a lord was a substitute, if a poor one, for not being elected to the House of Commons.
That is not what you would expect if poor governance were behind the bonanza.
And if his poor play continues long enough, not only do tournament earnings diminish, but endorsements as well.
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But it would still justify hefty sacrifices on the part of the rich to shore up the consumption of the poor, even if they have not yet been born.
This also suggests that we are not doomed to become a poor country if we move to higher rates of immigration.
The private sector believed that housing prices would rise steadily, and thus that loans backed by housing could not go wrong, even if the borrowers had poor credit.
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Yet it looks as if Medicare is not welfare, at least not for the poor.
And 50 countries around the world still report annual outbreaks of cholera to the WHO, a bacterial infection spread via poor sanitation that causes death by dehydration if not treated soon enough.
America alone has about 1.4m of them by one count, including hospitals and universities, if not yogurt factories, that charge low rates to the poor and are forbidden from distributing their profits to owners.
History has shown us that if you continue to empower the poor and desperate by not treating them well and not coming up with solutions to improve their lives, then it will end badly.
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If we consumed all that we earned we would not only be poor, but there would also be no capital for entrepreneurs to access.
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If you are part of the working poor, or do not get coverage through work, the government will assist you in helping to pay for the policy they are requiring you to buy.
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You are not going to make a sale if a customer is grousing over poor service.
If you know a child from a poor family, tell her not to give up.
It is not hard to sell a house to a poor person if he needs no down payment and if the initial terms are tailored to what he can afford.
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And measures can and should be taken to ensure that the future economic growth of the poor world, if that happy outcome occurs, does not unduly exacerbate the problem of global warming.
The court said that if a natural resource was going to benefit the poor, then it did not have to be auctioned.
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"The history of supergrass trials is that the overwhelming majority, if not all of them, have always put in the witness box people of poor credibility, " he said.
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If nothing else, the outcome of the Kenya election, not to mention my poor predictions for the Africa Cup of Nations, served to confirm there will be no alternative career for me in predicting the future.
Her silver heels are like knives, her working costume is tauter than a second skin, and, when she straddles the Pod, as if planning to have kittens with it, the only one not to notice is poor old Batman.
If you're not working, it's up to you to pay for poor health.
Such measures may not produce a new Eton but, if they can boost the achievements of the poor, they will make Britain a fairer society.
Serious, competitive reform to the banking system is essential if the state banks' legacy of poor profitability and high non-performing loans is not to continue jeopardising the country's prospects for growth.
If exporting brawn generally makes sense for a poor country, sending its better brains away may not.
Even if the poor world signs up fully to the WTO's existing disciplines, that might not satisfy some in the rich world.
But if the society you live in thinks that not being able to afford a linen shirt makes you poor, you cannot afford a linen shirt, then in that society you are indeed poor.
Yet no matter who actually placed the trades, this loss not only reflects poor risk management and weak internal controls but could also reveal fraud if it can be established that trading losses were intentionally hidden, as has been alleged (and is subject to investigation by regulatory authorities).
If the people of Luxembourg had a low value add then they would be poor world workers, not rich.
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