China is also unique in encountering a serious problem with aging while still a poor country.
And although China is still a poor country, it is also a rich country.
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So the low prices have already had a drastic effect on a poor country like Mali.
What it needs, like any poor country, is the skills that should grow as investment does.
As a poor country this makes sense: India should invest more than it saves.
Rwanda, a poor country in the heart of Africa, has cut maternal deaths by 60% since 2000.
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"People are always getting bad news about Bangladesh, hearing about it being a poor country, " she said.
There has been relatively little movement from poor country to rich country over the last 40-plus years.
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Yemen is a poor country with a dispersed population, many of whom subsist without basic government services.
If exporting brawn generally makes sense for a poor country, sending its better brains away may not.
President Sakashvili committed 850 troops to the coalition, a huge number for such a small, relatively poor country.
It fits their policy of opening up trade routes in an attempt to generate commerce for this poor country.
This also suggests that we are not doomed to become a poor country if we move to higher rates of immigration.
In the past, the career path of a gifted software programmer in a poor country inevitably led to a local conglomerate.
Why should Uganda have all its debts cancelled but not Bangladesh, a poor country that has managed its debts more competently?
"We are not a poor, poor country, with no education, " said Sabina.
Mauritius is many economists' favourite example of how a poor country, with few natural advantages, can make globalisation work to its advantage.
The impact on different households within a poor country is another question.
"To create real economic development, an apparel company needs to create as many economic linkages in a poor country as possible, " he continued.
But can the education of a child in a poor country be seen as a worthwhile investment for a citizen of a rich country?
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If the king does succeed in transforming Jordan into a regional, service-oriented business hub, it won't be a first for a small, resource-poor country.
Coming at the end of the harvest season, it is a period of relative prosperity for the poor country and feels like the subcontinent's version of Christmas.
That it did is not because India is a poor country and therefore not able to match the spending of its richer Western sisters.
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They tell the story of a small, poor country on the north western fringe of Europe, striving to take its place on the international stage.
China is still a fairly poor country but, by dint of its large population, it is already the world's second-largest economy measured in current dollars.
It is striking that this generally poor country seems, in some areas of life, to be following a path more akin to Western countries than its neighbours.
Laos is not the first poor country to be caught between the need for development on the one hand, and environmental or diplomatic concerns on the other.
Mexico is viewed by many in the US as a very poor country, but it actually ranks number 11 in GDP, higher than Canada, Spain, and many others.
Is it Iran, a poor country badly in need of economic development that, despite all its oil and alleged nuclear ambitions, has an economy smaller than that of New Jersey?
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