Along with certain trustees, the manipulators reaped enormous profits but impoverished the railroad in the process.
As in many other African nations, the Chinese are an enormous economic presence in this impoverished but mineral-rich country, and their treatment of local workers has become an explosive political issue, presenting an awkward balancing act for governments desperate for foreign investment.
Taxpayers are also paying enormous amounts to support the impoverished employees of Wal-Mart and other giant companies.
Nearly 150,000 Chechens fled to Ingushetia when the war began, creating an enormous burden on a republic that itself is impoverished, with an unemployment rate of 85percentt.
A government white-paper released to mark the conference's anniversary claimed: "The number of impoverished women has dropped by an enormous margin, and the severity of poverty of women has been continuously alleviated".
With its long, sorry history of colonization and exploitation of its natural resources, the Congo remains a place that generates enormous wealth while most of its people are impoverished.
Zimbabwe is a country of "enormous disparities between a very wealthy few and the impoverished mass, with a squeezed middle," says Sue Onslow, of the Africa international affairs programme at the London School of Economics.
Nyerere's calm, dignified, scholarly demeanor enabled him to rake in billions of dollars in foreign aid, all of it wasted on destructive government-run economic schemes, including a Soviet-style attempt at collective agriculture that further impoverished an already poor area and led to enormous suffering.
Orange Farm is an impoverished, informal settlement in Gauteng, South Africa, faced with enormous challenges -- lack of education and access to Internet resources being chief among them.
The enormous population increase of the last several decades, mainly among the world's impoverished, is a contributing factor in the "race for the bottom" in wages.
