Sentence examples for poor democracy from inspiring English sources
Politicians in a poor democracy must take measures a rich democracy need not bother with.
To the illiterate poor, democracy is nothing but a bourgeois concept that has benefited only the middle- and upper-income groups.
When I spoke with him two years ago, he nattered on about economics, market programs to help the poor, democracy and corruption.
But both miss the point that in a poor democracy, inclusiveness, crucially coupled with the perception of inclusiveness, is the only politically feasible way to press ahead with economic growth and development.
If Mr. Singh is forced to reverse course again on the economic measures, or should his government fall before the end of its mandate in 2014, many could conclude that sound economic policy remains politically impossible in a large, populous and still relatively poor democracy like India.
In India and in other poor democracies, by contrast, the pressures for redistributive and social policies are irresistible.
And there was Chávez the hero who empowered the poor, deepened democracy and stood up to the US.
If your only measure of "good" is material wellbeing, then a China with a rising standard of living but no freedom is "better" than a desperately poor new democracy in Sierra Leone.
Finally Paddy Ashdown... Well, Ashdown, soldier, politician, diplomat, author and booklover extraordinaire, has come up with the remedy (alongside all the more serious ones, like holding a general election tomorrow, reforming the constitution, and Westminster sharing more power) for reviving our poor battered democracy.
As Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations Secretary-General at the time, wrote last year, "Violent extremism tends to thrive in an environment characterized by poor governance, democracy deficits, corruption and a culture of impunity for unlawful behavior engaged in by the State or its agents".
