And some policies to foster the spread of technology to this largely poor population were overdue.
Yet little of Mali's prosperity has trickled down to its mostly poor population, including its soldiers.
He said he was trying only to encourage many of the city's displaced poor population to return.
The paper said government officials acknowledged that even that plan would help only a fraction of the city's poor population.
Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched through Nigeria's biggest cities this month after government scrapped a subsidy that had kept gasoline within the reach of the deeply poor population.
On the domestic front, China's rural poor population has declined for the first time since the poverty line was raised in 2011, although poverty alleviation work remains arduous, Xinhua news agency reports.
You know, people struggle with the day-to-day realities of trying to get by and making ends meet, but in suburban communities, particularly ones where this is a recent phenomenon and a particularly rapid phenomenon, they often don't have the same sorts of services and infrastructure in place to address the challenges that come along with a growing poor population.
That, estimates the authority, would lift 100, 000 Panamanians out of poverty: today 1m are poor in a population of 3.4m.
The pressure of a desperately poor and growing population has led to the indiscriminate felling of trees, for fuel as well as to increase cultivable acreage.
It has a dangerous mix of poor sanitation, high population density and limited health services.
For China's fast-diminishing population of poor people, bikes remain an important beast of burden, piled high with recycled junk.
Across the world climate change is set to exacerbate problems where poor land use and population pressure is already putting an immense strain on finely balanced ecologies.
Gabon enjoys a per capita income four times that of most sub-Saharan African nations, but because of high income inequality, a large proportion of the population remains poor.
The report suggests that Scotland and Northern Ireland may face proportionally greater future demands on the health service than England and Wales, as they have a higher incidence of poor health in the population.
Yemen is a poor country with a dispersed population, many of whom subsist without basic government services.
With 2.2 immigrants per 1, 000 population entering from poor countries, Japan actually scores better than five other countries, including Britain and France.
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Medicaid programs attempt, mostly through heroic individual efforts, to serve a desperately needy population of the poor, chronically ill, mentally unstable, and recklessly pregnant.
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China's demand for fertiliser is expected to be particularly buoyant as a result of its huge population and the poor quality of its arable land.
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But she said it had to be considered in the context of the "worrying deficiencies in existing services and the poor health status of the population".
More poor people added to the official population roster will likely force the government to focus financial resources towards those populations.
High population density, a poor ratio of available water to demand, and regional imbalances in available water supplies are serious challenges for China in managing its usable water supply.
For example, when Texaco dumped oil sludge into the river in a remote Amazon community, it got away with it for decades because it was so remote and the population affected was so poor.
"The danger here is that quality financial advice becomes something only for the wealthy, when in reality, most people need it to some degree - as poor rates of saving across the population only go to show, " said Keith Tadhunter, an independent financial adviser at Future Financial in Bath.
The couple remained on the island until 1930, when a desperately low population, crop failures and poor infrastructure, meant living there was no longer sustainable.
Oakland is a troubled, poor city, where almost half the population is black, a quarter is Latino and a hefty proportion are unemployed.
Gujarat had opposed the appeal of Madhya Pradesh, pointing to its neighbour's poor record on protecting its own tiger population in the Panna reserve forest.
Indeed, no nation included in the major international rankings educates as many poor students or as ethnically diverse a population as does the United States.
Despite its status as a protected national park, sustainable management of the Juniper ecosystem remains threatened by the population intrusion, poverty, poor governance and the dependence of local communities on forest for goods and services.
But what is perhaps most striking is that which is revealed by the italicized sentences: Indeed, no nation included in the major international rankings educates as many poor students or as ethnically diverse a population as does the United States.
The elderly on Medicare and the poor on Medicaid use more medical services, and therefore are at greater risk for poor care, than the working-age population.
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