1.   In much of the world not just the poor but whole countries are getting poorer.

2.   At present we are mirroring the system which maintains the basic effect of the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer.

3.   A few got rich, but most got poorer.

4.   But as he got richer, his people got poorer.

5.   But that means that a country already feeling impoverished by bad, corrupt government is about to get poorer.

6.   For decades, the world-weary prediction that the poor are getting poorer seemed a safe enough bet.

7.   One result is that Jerusalem is the second poorest city in Israel after Bnei Brak, an ultra-Orthodox city adjacent to Tel Aviv, and stands to get poorer.

8.   Sierra Leone was getting poorer each year even before the war, largely because of mismanagement and corruption.

9.   Since then the North has gotten poorer while the rest of Asia has prospered.

10.   Should we allow some of the poor to get poorer so that others may pull themselves out of dependency?