Life in the Weimar Republic was marked by massive hyperinflation, crippling poverty, and political upheaval.

It's no secret that many in the Muslim world suffer from crippling poverty and lack of education.

The bank and the fund adopted the program in broad terms last fall, opening it only to nations that have achieved strong records of economic improvement despite suffering from crippling poverty.

For girls, because of a mix of traditional mores, crippling poverty and a lack of international aid for education, the numbers are even lower.

Then she remembered the shanties, the crippling poverty and hopelessness, the way so many men treated their women as mere possessions, chattels of no real value.

Faced with crippling poverty, a string of fledging colleges with names like Stone Child, Dull Knife and Little Hoop are turning to the example of one minority group to improve the educational opportunities of another.

There are wealthy industrialised enclaves surrounded by regions with crippling poverty.

Until the dumping of all subsidised crops and products onto their markets is ended, they will continue to face an uphill struggle to lift themselves out of crippling poverty.

This thorny and provocative first book - it's about cancer, racism, scientific ethics and crippling poverty - floods over you like a narrative dam break.

But while Zambia is one of Africa's most peaceful nations, it still struggles with crippling poverty and astronomical rates of disease that keep a majority of its citizens living in hardscrabble conditions close to the edge.