HIPC Heavily Indebted Poor Countries

There are countries up here which are very poor.

Other low income countries should follow suit.

Poor countries will be hit harder, however.

It made the continent especially poor countries richer.

Meanwhile, the poor countries continued to grow poorer, and the rich countries continued to grow richer.

Poor countries must believe that rich countries will honor their pledges.

Why don t the poor countries grow more rapidly?

Poor countries are aware of their power to block progress.

But it is the poorest nations that feel these blows most sharply.

In such a world, poor and weak countries would be losers.

Repaying such debt has rendered poor countries even poorer.

So poor countries are by and large low trust countries.

But poor countries seem to have to play by a different set of rules.

It's just awful, those poor people.

It's just awful. Those poor people.

Poor countries received a commitment for much deeper debt cancellation.

Aid and debt forgiveness will lift poor countries out of poverty

The world's poorest countries, by contrast, hardly innovate at all.

This is rarely possible in the developing world, which suffers from outmoded regulatory structures and underdeveloped capital markets.

52. The poorest and most indebted countries deserved special attention.

Poor kids.

My poor, poor children!

Yet poor countries or donors acting on behalf of the poor cannot pay the same prices paid by rich countries. America s average annual income is over 35,000 per person in much of Africa, annual income is less than 350 per person.

Yet poor countries or donors acting on behalf of the poor cannot pay the same prices paid by rich countries.

Many poor countries are wildly off track when it comes to meeting this goal.

But the impact on poor countries is far more severe.

The world s poorest countries face the greatest hardship when trade languishes.

According to our recent report, Voices of the Vulnerable, the near poor are becoming the new poor.

Poor countries cannot afford these investments on their own, so rich countries must help.

Both rich and poor countries would benefit from increased migration, with developing countries benefiting the most.

It is true that poorer EU countries tend to outgrow richer ones, but poor regions do not necessarily outgrow rich regions or even the country average.

Conversely, the poor are the first to suffer from deterioration of their natural environment.

It is not true that poor countries have become poorer.

Moreover, market penetration in poor countries is rising sharply.

But poor countries are capable of establishing effective public health programs rapidly when they are helped.

In general, remittances tend to benefit poor segments of the population in recipient countries.

The devastation caused by natural disasters affects all countries, rich and poor alike.

Poor.

In other words, the poor countries cannot benefit from globalization if the industrialized countries are not cooperative.

A global killer is ripping through the world s poorer countries largely unchecked.

Rich or poor, industrial or rural, we are all connected to the world s diversity of life.

Thus, we are faced with a paradox that throws up a challenge to both rich and poor countries.

However, several countries, mostly poor, were in arrears to those institutions.

We still have as poor countries as we have had, always, in history.