Pay was poor in Britain, and these skilled workers could get much more money in America.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

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

"Traditional environmental risks are those that face largely the poor in China, risks like drinking water contaminated with infectious organisms or highly polluted indoor air from people burning wood or other dirty fuels inside homes without chimneys."

VOA: standard.2010.04.07

It is a collection of linked short stories about the lives of very rich and very poor people in Pakistan.

VOA: special.2010.01.01

A simple water pump is helping to improve the lives of poor families in several Asian and African countries.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

He says he was shocked by the way poor people in Port-au-Prince lived when he first visited in nineteen eighty-one.

VOA: special.2010.02.05

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

Many victims live in areas with poor or non-existent health care systems and where antivenom treatments are often not available.

VOA: special.2010.01.25

And the plan calls for one hundred billion dollars a year in aid to poor nations to deal with climate change.

VOA: special.2009.12.26

That is the issue that will continue in this country when these poor tongues of Judge Douglas and myself are silent.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

It says the world also needs to develop better farming methods to feed growing populations in poor countries.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

Leaders of the world's wealthiest nations have promised twenty billion dollars to increase food security in poor countries.

VOA: special.2009.07.11

There he saw life at its worst, especially in a very poor part of New York which was known as Mulberry Bend.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

Clemente's work helping poor people, especially those in Puerto Rico, became a very important part of his life.

VOA: special.2010.04.11