Being chronically poor is rarely, if ever, a positive experience.
For the chronically poor nation of over 1 billion people, the news is welcome.
The cognitive decline that so often accompanies aging may in part result from chronically poor sleep.
The parents of the original, chronically poor and unable to feed their children, are driven to despair.
Romania was ruled for decades by a Communist dictatorship, under which it was grindingly industrialized but also left chronically poor.
However, investors have put Sony's bosses under pressure to do something about the company's chronically poor performance.
On Tuesday, in what has become an annual ritual, Congress will hold hearings on the V.B.A.'s chronically poor performance.
"To obtain tax concessions at the direct expense of a chronically poor country raises serious moral and ethical questions," the report says.
While Mideast politics lured out-of-state money to the race, more typical issues dominated in the far-flung, chronically poor Seventh District.
In recent months, for example, protests have broken out repeatedly in Taza, a northeastern town typical of this chronically poor, backwater Morocco.
At the beginning of February, at the World Economic Forum, O'Neill repeated Easterly's point that many aid recipients remain chronically poor.
