The provincial government in this poverty-stricken region of northwestern China is aggressively enforcing a new law requiring the sterilization of mentally retarded people.

The inhabitants of the poverty-stricken region rely on subsistence farming, raising livestock and crops such as wheat and saffron.

Many were peasants from the poverty-stricken region of Kysuce in northwestern Slovakia.

At roughly the same time, the winemakers in those poverty-stricken, long-ignored regions began to realize that they had more to offer than anonymous blending wine.

The word originated in the dry, poverty-stricken northeastern region of Brazil.

The poverty-stricken region attracts a small number of hikers and adventure tourists.

By controlling the economy they hope to take over the countries in the hopes of creating a utopia in this poverty-stricken region.

They say the effort must grow considerably to keep the monarch sanctuaries out of harm's way in this poverty-stricken region.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson is well known here, and his campaign has an inherent appeal in a poverty-stricken region.

She is portrayed as an honest and warm-hearted young lady who grew up in a poverty-stricken rural region and experiences difficulties living in urban Seoul.