Johnson cites the Central African Republic as one country where children suffer from instability and lack of basic services.

VOA: standard.2010.02.04

Poverty and unemployment remain major problems, as do the lack of good roads, good schools and health care.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

"As far as we're concerned they're basically hiding behind the United State's lack of ambition,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.06

"The study alludes to things such as hopelessness, the lack of medical care.

VOA: standard.2010.06.23

This new study combined a large number of previous studies and concluded that a lack of social interactions ranks right up with smoking,obesity, and alcoholism as a risk factor for death.

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

He said girls in one Dakar school explained to him some of the daily challenges they face, such as the lack of bathrooms in the school, bullying from boys, and a lack of textbooks.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

Brennan said the Obama administration will also focus on factors that contribute to terrorism, such as poverty, and a lack of education and other opportunities for young people in many developing areas of the world.

VOA: standard.2009.08.06

Although a major oil producer, Iran must import most of its gasoline because of a lack of refining capacity, creating what U.S.lawmakers have long seen as a crucial point of leverage with Tehran over its nuclear program.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

"And they will see President Obama's higher taxes, more spending,more debt, more government intervention in our economy,in the banks, in the auto industry, in health care and in energy as largely responsible for that lack of job creation,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.15

"So,we think this is going to create a very dire situation where some of us might think of it as genocide by other means rather than by bullets - killing these people slowly through starvation, disease and lack of sanitation,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.28