But then economic chaos in Mexico sent a flood of immigrants northward, many of them poorly educated farmers from the impoverished countryside.

In fact, Real de Angeles seems not so bad off by the standards of the most impoverished Mexican countryside.

Most are young men from China's impoverished countryside who hear about the high-flying work from fellow villagers already in the city.

There is also a fitness that comes from the demands of life in the impoverished countryside.

He has pledged to speed up earthquake reconstruction, develop the impoverished countryside and build a modern army.

The European Union instead recently pledged $293 million for social development programs in Colombia's impoverished countryside.

The population pressure is felt most acutely in the cities, where natural growth is aggravated by migration from the impoverished countryside.

The scale of the buildings and formal gardens is stupendous in relation to the impoverished countryside around it.

Three decades of sustained economic growth, concentrated along the booming coast, has lured millions from the impoverished Chinese countryside.

Ha Thetsane is home to thousands of women who have fled Lesotho's impoverished countryside to seek jobs as garment workers.