Unemployed young people left destitute will not be magically transformed into sharp-suited young entrepreneurs, or walk into jobs and training places that do not exist.
"Four years since this crisis began, Syria's people have been plunged into the dark: destitute, fearful, and grieving for the friends they have lost and the country they once knew," said David Miliband, president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee.
The move comes after an Observer investigation found evidence that Abu Dhabi's Tourism Development and Investment Company TDICC), which manages the development of luxury resorts and three major museums on Saadiyat, is failing to uphold its own employment policies, with workers left destitute, confined to their quarters and sent home for taking strike action.
Their death or maiming leaves families destitute and deprives countries of their most economically valuable citizens.
A recent operation to "clean up" cities by bulldozing supposedly illegal dwellings has left another 700,000 people destitute, adding to the ranks of the hungry.
Meanwhile China is damaging its relations with South Korea and others.Mostly, though, China fears that if it acknowledges the true nature of the refugee problem, and allows UN officials access to the thousands of destitute North Koreans on its territory, soon outsiders will demand to poke about Tibet and Xinjiang, where China stands accused of treating its own minorities harshly.
Even those, like India, that aim at national coverage, leave long gaps between surveys, meaning records are out of date and full of holes.Another common approach is to outsource the task of deciding who is destitute to local leaders or community meetings.
Starving, destitute and drenched in the tempest's wake, it is hard to see the Burmese summoning the strength to throw off the tyrants' rule.
Some, particularly in the Highlands and islands, were certainly poor, even destitute, and the clearances in the late 1840s and early 1850s were undeniably brutal and often coercive.
But even if they are fewer in number and less destitute than often thought, Brazil's urban homeless are still an indictment of a state that has tended to do more for its own workers and pensioners than for the poor.
A few years later, pregnant and on the streets, she turned to the network of charities that look after the destitute in Birmingham, especially the Children's Society.
