It was just too poor, too underdeveloped.
In the past, some financial institutions, notably Bank of America, Merrill Lynch and many large European insurers, did spectacularly well by nurturing clients only slightly too poor to be of interest to the leading firms of the day.But to reach the vast number of people who currently lack access to the financial markets, microfinance will have to change.
This demonstrates only too well just how "poor" literacy levels are in Britain, compared with 20 other countries.
"Only those who are too poor to leave, and those with a bad omen on their heads, who will be killed in one of three ways — kidnapping, car bomb, or militias".
"Only those who are too poor to leave, and those with a bad omen on their heads, who will be killed in one of three ways kidnapping, car bomb, or militias".
I am only six, and we are too poor for books and I know nothing about history.
So not only do they end up too poor to buy an equivalent house in a better area, but they are also sometimes saddled with the mortgage debt from their demolished property.Newcastle council is trying to devise ways of overcoming this.
Pupils follow the lesson by using sticks to scratch numbers in the sand.The lack of basic kit is only too typical of schools in poor countries.
More whale-friendly nations must be recruited to the IWC, they say, to counteract poor countries only too happy to do down whales in exchange for Japanese aid money.
QPR know only too well how costly a poor start can be after a 16-game winless run at the beginning of their last top-flight campaign in 2012-13 led to their relegation to the Championship.
