It is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere and among the poorest in the world.
Nicaragua is the second poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, only behind battered Haiti.
Former Senator BOB GRAHAM (Democrat, Florida): Haiti, the poorest country in the western hemisphere is about to get poorer.
Bamako, sleepy but safe and fairly well run, looks nothing like the capital of the fourth-poorest country in the world.
Honduras, the second poorest country in Central America, suffers from extraordinarily unequal distribution of income, as well as high underemployment.
Land-locked Bolivia is the poorest country in South America and outside the main cities much of it is barren and inhospitable terrain.
Guinea-Bissau, one of the world's poorest country, was just weeks away from holding a presidential run-off vote when a coup took place last month.
Even today, Portugal has not yet recovered its 17th-century position relative to other European economies, and it remains the poorest country in Western Europe.
Now, Afghanistan is also the second poorest country in the world.
Hopefully this includes the U.S., which has enormous influence in Haiti and also should want to see the Western Hemisphere's poorest country get off its knees.
Yemen is the poorest country in the Middle East, with a severe shortage of water and rising levels of malnutrition among its population of about 25 million.
Jan 16 (Reuters) - When Irish billionaire Denis O'Brien set about building a cellphone company in the western hemisphere's poorest country, there was no shortage of skeptics.
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Neither leading party in Bulgaria's election garnered a strong mandate to govern or build a lasting coalition, an outcome likely to prolong political instability in the EU's poorest country.
But now, after two centuries of factional infighting, misgovernment and corruption, not to mention 32 coups (33 if you include Mr Aristide's ousting), Haiti is the poorest country in the Americas.
Political analysts say he has used the lengthy transition period wisely, reaching out to all sides to heal the bitter political divisions that have plagued the hemisphere's poorest country for so long.
Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere and suffered further in the 2010 earthquake, which destroyed much of the country, and from a subsequent cholera epidemic that has killed more than 7, 000 people.
But even Ghana has a long way to go: according to the World Bank it was the 173rd poorest country in 2000, and all four countries chosen for the O'Neill tour have enormous economic and social problems to contend with.
Unrest linked to the cost of food and fuel has occurred not only in Haiti -- the poorest country in the western hemisphere's --but in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Egypt, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Mauritania, Mozambique and Senegal, according to the program.
Under Armour makes a donation to begin a sewing business that works in conjunction with the micro-finance initiative run by the church in Nicaragua in partnership with the ORPHANetwork supported by GraceCity, whose collective mission is to serve a community living in the biggest dump in the poorest country in the Americas.
The state used to be among the poorest in the country, relying on the federal government to prop up its farmers with crop insurance and its elderly (who are legion) with Medicare and Social Security.
"I resent our state always being pointed out as the poorest state in the country, " Evers said.
Fresno is one of the poorest cities in the country and, not coincidentally, one of the least healthy.
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But far from being discouraged, they helped rally one of the poorest areas in the country to the cause.
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The Central Valley is already one of the poorest regions of the country.
In November 2000 this seat was identified as the second poorest area of the country and the one suffering the worst ill health.
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It has one of the poorest records in the country for corporate philanthropy, and what charitable giving there is tends to be narrowly focused.
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