Word: poorest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Indonesia, for example, HIID helped assemble a credit program through local banks that lends to the poorest segment of society without the need for any government subsidies...
...four blocks of it, has not a single traffic light. Yet the local bank in recent years has boasted one of the highest profit margins in the U.S., and reached $1 billion in assets in 1998. You might wonder how such a bank could thrive in one of the poorest counties in the U.S. And you'd be in good company, because bank examiners and the FBI wondered...
...reason than to ensure the continued support of its main constituency, the armed forces. To truly devolve power, the regime would deprive itself of its control over the country's economic resources, a substantive portion of which sustain a half-a-million-strong military establishment in one of the poorest and most underdeveloped states in the world...
...worst crunch is coming to the poorest regions...
...march" was down the road to capitalism. And with 20 years of an astonishing average annual growth rate of close to 10 percent - over the last decade alone, China's GDP has increased by more than 300 percent - Deng's quiet revolution has transformed one of the world's poorest countries in 1949 into its seventh-largest economy 50 years later...