International organizations working in Gaza have warned of growing hardship.
Still, international organizations working in Gaza, which is controlled by the Islamic militant group, Hamas, have warned of growing hardship.
But for ordinary people, life must go on against a backdrop of escalating food and fuel prices, and growing hardship.
Salt, rice, sugar and clothing are also being sent to relieve the growing hardship among the population of the blockaded province.
The displaced in Peshawar told stories of growing hardship at home, and they complained bitterly of the failure of the government to help.
But scenes of bustling streets and well-dressed Congolese going about their business belie the growing hardship faced by all but the richest local residents, or Kinois.The main topic of conversation is the economy, or rather its collapse.
The American attack on terrorist bases in Taliban-led Afghanistan, an ally of Pakistan, the threat of war between Afghanistan and Iran, and growing hardship within Pakistan are hardening opinion against America and its demands.
In the current context this poverty blindness is not hard to understand: social workers are caught between cuts in services and tighter eligibility on one hand, and growing hardship and social exclusion on the other.
The Japanese are finally, after an economic crisis that follows almost two decades of growing hardship, turning thrifty.Even before exports collapsed last year, wages at the national level had begun to fall as well-paid elderly workers retired, to be replaced by underpaid youngsters.
On the economic front, Egypt's deal with the IMF for a $4.8bn£3bnbn) loan, announced on Tuesday, obliges it to end subsidies on items such as fuel, which will lead, inevitably, to unpopular price rises at a time of growing hardship.
We are entering a period not simply of growing hardship in this country but of what I would call precarious poverty: the sort that isn't characterised by the traditional image of lifelong, deep-seated deprivation, but which can hit in a matter of days: a broken washing machine, a late child tax credit payment, an injury that leads to time off work.
