The truth is, as more become rich, the poor benefit as the private sector thrives and opportunities emerge.
Professor ABU MUHAMMED OSCARGONI (University of Tehran): Without state intervention, the poor cannot benefit.
Moreover, if the revenues were used to improve public transport, the poor would benefit disproportionately.
And those who do, understand how restrictive Medicaid rules are and how poor the benefit often is.
Countries that import food (many of them poor) benefit from the largesse of rich-world subsidies, but agricultural exporters suffer.
Poor countries benefit from opening their markets, even unilaterally, since consumers can buy cheaper imports and foreign competition spurs domestic producers to greater efficiency.
In the millennium round, poor countries could benefit from America's determination to prise open Europe's cosseted farm sector.
Moreover, in those areas where poor countries could benefit from world trade rules, they are often unable to do so.
Mr Cline thinks most poor countries would benefit from a rise in the relative price of agricultural goods in the world market.
That would not only help the working poor, but benefit the economy.
Ruth Macdonald, the service's deputy manager, says these women are worth investing in as mums because it can break the cycle of poor parenting and benefit future generations of mothers.
Food prices had been falling but even then, the global price fall did not translate into a comparable decline on local markets in most poor countries, so the poor did not benefit much.
Specifically, he directed that the majority of his assets would be used to pay education expenses and assistance to benefit poor children and young adults who attended schools in either South Carolina or Georgia.
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The idea of charges for university education (euphemistically known as top-up fees) strikes fear into the hearts of parents neither poor enough to benefit from state hand-outs nor rich enough not to feel the pinch of high tuition fees.
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According to the World Bank, only 10% of Indonesian fuel subsidies benefit the poor.
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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It is less clear, however, how much that will benefit the poor.
If they succeed, India could yet be the country that proves the Internet can benefit the poor world, and not just the rich.
The party said it would replace the council tax with a local service charge, again designed to benefit the poor and target the well-off.
This one step would enormously benefit the poor already on Medicaid.
Worse, obsessed with the idea that globalisation threatens the social contract in rich countries, Mr Rodrik almost forgets that both rich and poor countries stand to benefit enormously from trade.
Low price, in addition to the fact that most students are poor, was a benefit in case someone had to leave the stuff behind due to a longer move, downsizing, or simply lost their abode for a while.
It may benefit the poor if the money the exchequer saves can then be handed to them through cash transfers, or spent on connecting them to the mains, rather than on filling the baths and basins of the rich.
"We are delighted at the honour bestowed upon Nabanna, " said Falguni Mondol, 35, a resident of Arbelia and a direct beneficiary of Nabanna, which is innovating on web-based databases and information sharing through internet to benefit the poor women of Baduria a remote region in West Bengal's North 24-Parganas district which is the pilot site for Nabanna.
Has the preaching brought any benefit to the poor that Mr Haq clearly cared about?
Critics have attacked them because they benefit rich and poor recipients alike.
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They will engage in social policy dialogue over social protection measures designed for the benefit of the poor, the vulnerable and the excluded.
The main benefit to the poor of a construction boom, at least at first, is likely to be the jobs it will create.
This would include block granting Medicaid to the states as well, to the great benefit of the poor, just as the 1996 reforms greatly benefitted the poor.
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Many of the poor countries that would most benefit from mobile money seem intent on keeping its suppliers out mainly by insisting they should be regulated like banks.
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