People were actually getting poorer than their parents, and sometimes even poorer than their grandparents had been.

I'm poorer now than when I started.

My family is poorer than what you think.

The average African was poorer today than in 1981.

..my own age, poorer than you could ever imagine.

Few places on earth are poorer and more destitute than southern Sudan.

The continent s fusion of culture makes its people richer rather than poorer.

There are poorer regions and poorer local governments.

The truth is, the Earth is environmentally poorer than it was a year ago.

Privatization also left poorer states and poorer communities especially vulnerable.

Will Americans Become Poorer?

For richer, for poorer...

for richer or for poorer...

Poorer countries could not absorb 10, 15 or 20 per cent of GDP in any other form than grants.

There are a millions of women a lot poorer than you in the world who rather die than expose themselves for a few lousy rotten shillings.

Uttar Pradesh, the biggest of the states here, is poorer and has a lower health than the rest of India.

First, households are cutting back sharply on consumption, since they feel and are vastly poorer than they were a year ago.

In poorer countries, women s access to paid labor is a better predictor of children s well being than the stability of marriage.

Women led households tend to be significantly poorer than other households, making employment in reconstruction programmes particularly important for this group.

Most of these countries (including several from Latin America) are smaller and poorer than those that have resolved their debt problems.

The public discourse is poorer for this.

A larger reward led to poorer performance.

Various court rulings have determined that this process allowed richer districts to spend more than poorer ones and ordered states to equalize spending.

Further calculation reveals that, in PPP terms, a person in the second country is 5 poorer than a person in the first country!

As a result ... the poor got even poorer.

Europeans made Latin America poorer in many ways.

For better, for worse. For richer, for poorer.

The poorer EU countries will suffer from this development.

The tariff was bad economics it made America poorer.

When Asia grows, the West does not become poorer.

Repaying such debt has rendered poor countries even poorer.

The poorer one was, the greater was the threat.

The rich become richer, and the poor become poorer.

The rich get richer while the poor get poorer.

The United States spends more on health care than any other country (both per capita and as a percentage of income), but gets poorer outcomes.

With China's growing sense of itself as a superpower, resentment about the country being poorer and less admired than some other nations has become intolerable.

A young man from Moscow or St. Petersburg is six times less likely to be drafted than a young man from (much poorer) rural areas.

The report shows that since 2000, investors or state bodies in rich or emerging countries have bought more than 83 million hectares (more than 200 million acres) of agricultural land in poorer developing countries.

More dramatically, people in Austria, France, Japan, and Germany appear to be no happier than people in much poorer countries, like Brazil, Colombia, and the Philippines.

So the EU must harmonize its policies with poorer countries.

There are many difficult trade offs to consider, including the consequences for others around the world who may be made significantly poorer than those hurt at home.

It is a path that we desperately need them to choose, but one that also means greater negotiating power for poorer countries than we have ever seen.

If we lost even one, our world was made immeasurably poorer.

Currency unions require a mechanism for permanent transfers to poorer regions.

The poor regions had become poorer and the rich regions richer.