Sentence examples for poorest groups from inspiring English sources

But it is a particularly regressive option, hitting the poorest groups hardest.

Perhaps a little over half belong to India's poorest groups: dalits and Muslims.

Farmers and fishermen are consistently ranked as two of the poorest groups in the country.

Variation in wealth is substantial with the richest groups earning more than ten times what the poorest groups earn.

There sales of taxed soft drinks have dropped 12% across the board, but by up to 17% among poorest groups.

Coverage of cost-effective maternal health services remains poor due to insufficient supply and inadequate demand for these services among the poorest groups.

Whatever the true level of inequality, though, it grew last year, with the greatest increases in poverty coming among some of the nation's poorest groups.

But the upturn since then has benefited middle earners – the erstwhile "squeezed middle" – while the richest and poorest groups have seen their living standards continue to fall.

Surveys in Kenya, Rwanda, Nigeria and Pakistan found those in the poorest groups had less income than the cheapest nutritious diet would cost.

"For the poorest groups in society, seasonal fluctuations in food access and drivers of infectious disease remain a reality," it said.

Money worries do not entirely explain it: some of the poorest groups in Russia (most of them Muslim) are the most fertile.