Translation of "Bittere armut" in English

There was bitter poverty in the city.

Those countries still have a lot of desperate poverty and are still very underdeveloped.

Many Africans will fall back into desperate poverty.

Abject poverty and economic boom – Africa is rich in contrasts.

Dire poverty marks the everyday lives of many families and their children.

For many countries in the world functional illiteracy equals bitter poverty.

For centuries, poverty dominated among the residents of Eierland.

Accordingly, the large majority of the rural population is still living in abject poverty.

Even in such a wealthy city like Munich, there is abject poverty.

All this results from ignorance, of course, but it mainly due to grinding poverty.

There she also witnessed the bitter poverty and misery of those living in Nepal and Pakistan.

Falling oil prices and political unrest have cast many people in Venezuela into bitter poverty.

If we allow abject poverty to continue in those countries, there will be massive migration from south to north and inequality could well be the cause of a world conflagration.

The statistic is that, whenever food prices increase by 1%, 16 million people around the world are plunged into dire poverty.

According to the World Bank, over 44 million people have been plunged into dire poverty as a result of rising food prices.

After all, Europe has an unbelievable potential impact because of its knowledge of the thinking behind events in Congo and can once more play a role to the benefit of the population, helping it do battle with desperate poverty, squalid health condition, starvation and epidemic disease.

In order to do this, a joint European crisis map must be drawn up, through which it would be easier to assess the areas afflicted by abject poverty.

It features members of the family and their children playing around the cemetery and the abject poverty they live in.

But this inspiring model is under threat, as Lebanon struggles to cope with massive debt and the spread of abject poverty in rural areas, especially among Sunnis.

This meant that the movements demanding change knew what they were against -- crushing poverty, widening inequality -- but just as important, they knew what they were for.

Interestingly it is mainly in those European countries in which elemental dangers and risks (such as hunger, cold, disease, acute poverty, arbitrary government, repression and lack of freedom) have been most successfully banished by technological, social and political progress that minor, or often even imagined, risks are a source of widespread anxiety.

Tens of millions of people are falling – or relapsing – into poverty; the climate and the environment are under ever-greater threat; growth is slowing and unemployment is rising and there is a risk that the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are in jeopardy and the gains of this last decade will be forfeited.

Even if my husband was no good I would accept dire poverty as long as I had my child.

A few years after the demolition, Gottfried Kinkel visited the field of ruins and this sight, together with the abject poverty of the Aremberg villagers filled him with anguish because the once flourishing settlement had become a poor village.