"Over the last few years, we became poorer and poorer, thousands of people were laid off and we were forgotten by the rest of Italy, left to rot in a corner, " said Pietro Airaudo, 72, at a cafe opposite an Olympic venue.
And in some cities the poor are poorer and the rich richer than the national average.
The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and the hapless middle class is squeezed in between.
Contributions do not always match countries' ability to pay and these imbalances are magnified by uneven spending (about 40% goes to agricultural support and a similar share to poorer countries and regions).
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The yuan's increased use beyond China's borders is a (still distant) threat to the dollar's central role in trade and international finance, but if the dollar were eventually shoved aside, it would make Americans poorer and raise the cost of their borrowing.
Data on the property sector show that despite double-digit declines in property sales, investment remains resilient nationwide and picked up as expected in the poorer central and western regions rather than along the expensive, and built-out coastlines in cities like Shanghai.
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Wealthy and poorer nations are likely to argue over sharing the burden of cutting carbon emissions.
At best, it makes us poorer and then shifts how current income is allocated.
Aimless defense spending, on the other hand, may well make us poorer and less secure.
It isn't the kind of doughnut-shaped, the rich inner and poorer outer, that Paris has.
Romania is poorer and worse-governed than most, but it is also too big to ignore.
Poorer and less educated Britons like America a lot more than their richer compatriots.
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But generally it appears men are less aware of the connection between excess weight and poorer health.
This time around his supporters are poorer and a little less Republican than the Perot voters of 1992.
"We are making some headway in closing the gaps in achievement between poorer and more affluent children, " he said.
When you use up cash paying down a mortgage, you make yourself look poorer and thus qualify for more aid.
She says that Somalis are more inclined to collective action, even though they are a more recent and poorer immigrant group.
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In ten years our services would have spread to those households that are poorer and less connected to the financial system.
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Now Best Buy is working hard at charging more than the competition, making poor service poorer and not stocking what customers want.
Given our methodology, we weren't able to include many of the world's smaller and poorer nations because there were no data available.
The subject of offshoring food production, through large-scale contract farming arrangements between richer and poorer nations, is another topic awaiting further exploration.
The first is a population that is whiter (and poorer) than average.
Among his proposed solutions, he says that every country should open its markets to any economy that is both smaller and poorer.
They struggle with concentration issues and poorer health and have lower self-esteem.
More importantly, the entire region still suffers from a huge "convergence gap" with the West, marked by lower living standards and poorer infrastructure.
That is why despite a global slowdown and poorer-than-expected performance at the midpoint of 1995, Asian economies are still growing at enviable rates.
Ultimately the reflex to let each employee chose his or her own investments has left us weaker and poorer as we approach retirement.
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Political analysts attribute his spectacular comeback to his harnessing of discontent among older and poorer voters with the government's handling of the economic downturn.
"The strategy has been targeted at low income households in an attempt to reduce the health inequalities that exist between richer and poorer families".
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