1.   Burma is trying to expand international trade and investment to help it develop an economy crippled by decades of mismanagement and socialist isolation.

2.   Taiwan is one of the biggest investors in Cambodia, which is trying to restore and modernize an economy crippled by decades of civil war.

3.   The churches, crippled by decades of state-sponsored atheism, rarely step in.

4.   The economy has been crippled by decades of war that has destroyed the infrastructure, further hurting farmers planting low-profit crops.