impoverished

Children who live in impoverished regions are especially vulnerable.

The group had long maintained strict control over Gazans and had often imposed harsh economic measures, including heavy taxes, on an already impoverished population to fund its military build-up.

Do “made the decision to abandon the elderly, sick, and impoverished during a national emergency so that he could personally benefit,” prosecutors wrote.

“Behind every policy that I implemented was my own impoverished and abject life, the everyday struggles of ordinary South Koreans,” he said in March 2022.

South Korea's overseas adoption programme began in the ashes of the 1950-53 Korean War, when it was a deeply impoverished country with an estimated 100,000 orphaned and displaced children.