11.   Chaos has gripped Albania since early spring, when high-risk investment schemes in which many people put their meager savings collapsed.

12.   Chaos has gripped Albania since early spring, when high-risk investment schemes in which many people put their meager savings, collapsed.

13.   Fears of an attack are rife throughout Afghanistan, where people are spending their meager savings to stock up on food and other supplies.

14.   Residents of Kabul were spending their meager savings to stock up on food.

15.   Residents of Kabul were spending their meager savings to stock up on food and other supplies.

16.   Similar schemes popped up throughout the post-Communist world, and all eventually collapsed with late investors losing their meager savings.

17.   In some cases, people were robbed of already meager savings, said Janowski.

18.   For many refugees their meager savings are running out and they have to depend almost entirely on the UNHCR.