He says projects designed to increase interpersonal trust can have a major effect in poor countries with undependable legal systems.

VOA: special.2009.12.19

Girls from poor families can miss up to a week of school each month because they do not have enough money for supplies.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

Such demonstrations have become frequent in a country with one of the widest gaps between rich and poor in the world.

VOA: standard.2010.03.21

Leaders of the protest movement have been portraying the demonstrations as a struggle between Thailand's poor, mainly rural masses and the Bangkok-based elite.

VOA: standard.2010.03.27

Rich countries have proposed to pay out $10 billion a year over three years to poor countries.

VOA: standard.2009.12.11

"On any given day, you can have a rich person next to a poor person.

VOA: standard.2010.05.06

Researchers at the University of Michigan found that if people living in poor neighborhoods received CPR instruction, heart attack victims there would have a better chance of survival.

VOA: standard.2010.06.04

The study found people in poor neighborhoods are two to three times more likely to have a heart attack than those living in a wealthier part of town.

VOA: standard.2010.06.04

For generations poor northeasterners have migrated to richer parts of Thailand or abroad to make a living in menial jobs from driving taxis to dancing in sleazy go-go bars.

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

"And,high food prices and fuel prices, as well as drought have had a severe impact on the most vulnerable groups in Afghanistan, many of whom are also living in very poor and inadequate housing.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

"They remain treated as temporary migrants and, without that piece of paper, some form of identification, they are not able to access many of these government schemes that exist now, that have large funds behind them and could actually make a huge difference in poor people's lives,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

"That will involve keeping countries happy with the division of labor as regards carbon trading, as regards how much they want to hold back their own industrial development, even though they say particularly many of the EU's new countries that they were poor for a long time, no different than the Chinese, that they have a right to develop their economy, that it is the rich countries in Europe that are more responsible for climate change than they are and they should get special treatment in any kind of EU position."

VOA: standard.2009.10.29