Honduras was the original 'banana republic,' and its poverty remains extreme.

This is America, not a banana republic.

Tunisian liberals say that the U.S. Embassy in Tunis is unengaged with their efforts to make sure the Tunisian model remains one of expanding freedom.

Sometimes the results of a first free election will find the moderates so poorly organized that extreme groups can eke out a victory, as Hamas did when it gained a 44-to-41 percent margin in the Palestinian election of 2006.

You see evidence of poverty reduction in Argentina and extreme poverty has fallen to just 12 percent.

We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the means of alleviating it.