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

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

VOA: special.2010.04.11

They told the story of a poor farm boy who educated himself and, through hard work and honesty, had become a candidate for president.

VOA: special.2009.07.09

Young Woody often had to work instead of attending school because his family was poor.

VOA: special.2010.06.13

This was his chance. He finally had found a profession that would lead to his life work -- making the world a better place for poor people.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

She says poor women there frequently are duped by people they trust into going to Western countries by promises of legitimate work.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

Bose's plight is familiar to millions of poor people, especially urban migrants who pour into the country's big cities every year, in search of work.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

"The next thing is to work out how technology can be transferred from rich countries to poor countries and this will involve things like investment in renewable energy, investment in wind power and solar, investment in more efficient power stations,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.04