Sentence examples for heavily poor from inspiring English sources

Those neighborhoods are heavily poor and populated by members of racial minorities, even for the Bronx, which is the most heavily black and Hispanic county in the state and one of the poorest.

Spurred in part by school financing lawsuits, more than half the 15 states included in the study already provide more state and local financing to heavily poor or minority districts than to affluent or low-minority ones, according to figures compiled by Education Trust, an advocacy group in Washington.

Both must balance a need to preserve economic growth for large, heavily poor populations, while at the same time preventing a buildup of inflation that might discourage longer-term investments — a tricky balancing act that has bedeviled policy makers in the United States and other affluent countries over the years.

If the resident population is heavily young (not yet eligible to vote), heavily immigrant (barred from voting), heavily poor (less likely to vote), power moves to district residents who are older, better educated, and wealthier.

There would no longer be 40 elementary schools with heavily poor-student populations.

Two global initiatives have helped to relieve the poorest countries of some of their debt; the first was a 1996 strategy focused on 39 heavily indebted poor countries (HIPCs), and the second was the 2005 multilateral debt relief initiative (MDRI).

Burj al-Barajneh is a heavily populated, poor and crowded neighbourhood that is often associated with Hezbollah.

The leaders promised to speed up efforts to achieve debt relief for 20 of the most heavily indebted poor countries.

The Paris Club agreed in July to clear Haiti's $62.7 million in debt under the International Monetary Fund and World Bank's initiative for heavily indebted poor countries.

Debts have been forgiven ($3.9 billion under the IMF's heavily indebted poor countries' initiative, as well as IOUs to Paris club creditors).

Many in the developing world are sceptical of initiatives like debt relief for the most heavily indebted poor countries, known as HIPCs.