Thailand's political crisis is often described simply as a fight between the poor and the rich.

VOA: special.2010.05.22

The United States Public Health Service and Tuskegee Institute in Alabama studied the effects of the disease syphilis on a group of poor African-American men.

VOA: special.2010.07.21

It was the true story about two high school basketball players from a poor area of Chicago, Illinois, and the problems they faced in college.

VOA: special.2009.01.28

DataDyne is a nonprofit organization that works to provide sustainable information technologies in poor areas.

VOA: special.2010.05.03

Then,in nineteen eighty-two, they took a further step toward helping poor and middle-income people.

VOA: special.2011.01.30

Their leaders said they were a non-violent democracy movement representing poor and rural people.

VOA: special.2010.05.22

The family was poor and lived in a neighborhood of crime and violence.

VOA: special.2009.09.04

And Red Shirts say those insults are used as an excuse to deny rural voters and the poor a say in the nation's politics.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

She is most likely poor and lives in a rural area of a developing country.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

Health Affairs editor Susan Dentzer says the rapid advance of information technology, along with declining prices, presents what she calls a spectacular opportunity in poor and middle-income nations.

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

She was poor. But she never said 'no' to a hungry person who came to her farm and asked for food.

VOA: special.2009.12.12

The idea is to provide extremely poor people with small loans so they can start and operate a business.

VOA: special.2010.06.16

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

Microfinance provides poor people with a way to build savings and work toward becoming part of a country's official financial system.

VOA: special.2010.06.16