One place that might make a difference is Shannon County, home to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, the most desolate, impoverished - and Democratic - corner of the state.

A former gypsy-cab driver from an impoverished corner of Puerto Rico, he established himself as a shrewd, unpredictable political player and paved the way for younger, more polished Latino leaders.

More than three million people are threatened by drought in an impoverished corner of Ethiopia.

It is necessity, dependence and a dearth of alternatives - and, after years in this mostly Latino and relatively impoverished corner of the South Bronx, some comfort in belonging.

The bridge closing has only reinforced the isolation of this desolate, impoverished corner of the South, where the casinos have become islands of population and prosperity in a sea of cotton fields.

Migrant workers in Moscow have long complained that their work and living conditions are abysmal, but the capital's bustling economy has drawn them from throughout the impoverished corners of the former Soviet Union.

For all of this city's self-evident inequities, Moscow is awash in cash, making it a magnet for migrant workers from impoverished corners of the former Soviet Union.

But it is in this impoverished corner of this AIDS-ravaged country that the poor are getting their first taste of a wonder drug.

In this impoverished corner of southwestern Guatemala, lush with jungle and burbling brooks, you can just about see people dying as an indirect result of America's trade agenda.

In 2002, the Red Cross, with a $50,000 grant from the Exxon Mobil Foundation, ran the first test of combined campaigns here in the impoverished, northwestern corner of Ghana, where one in five children dies before age 5.