But it gets poor marks for the rigidity of its labour market, its shortage of skills and, above all, for the perception that corruption is sharply rising.
The building has a central TV antenna, but it gets poor reception.
It was a poor region, and it got poorer as you went downstream toward Wushan, which was at the center of the Three Gorges — a hundred-and-twenty-mile stretch of narrow mountains and cliffs through which the Yangtze passes, creating a landscape of stunning beauty, hard farming, and fast currents.
Q: When the speech was first delivered it got poor reviews.
For many this would be as far as they'd go, as beyond it only gets poorer and more dangerous.
The reigning assumption in this nation, which sits atop some of the world's richest oilfields, has been that Venezuela is naturally rich and if it is getting poorer it is because someone in power is stealing.
In my mailbag I received an excellent example of the sort of reporting I'm talking about — a link to a "This American Life" show from May, the lead segment of which asked the excellent question: How can you have ten thousand N.G.O.s working in Haiti, and yet in the fifty years that that country has been receiving humanitarian aid it has gotten poorer every year?
Madagascar is a poor country, and it is getting poorer.
"We expect prices in London to continue along this upwards trajectory in 2016 especially with the introduction of improved help to buy schemes from the government, which will do more for protecting high house prices than it does for getting poorer people on the property ladder," according to MoveHub.
It's got posh people and it's got poor people, like Downton Abbey.
