Related by context. Frequent words. (Click for all words.) 49 crises 45 ills 43 afflicting 42 social ills 42 environmental degradation 41 grinding poverty 41 scarcities 41 deprivations 41 stark realities 41 intractable 41 impoverished 41 afflictions 41 problems besetting 41 ecologies 40 inequities 40 grim realities 40 gender inequalities 40 quagmires 40 resources 40 humanitarian crises 40 seemingly intractable 40 scourges 39 twin evils 39 crisis 39 dilemmas 39 extreme poverty 39 poorest 39 devastations 39 poverty 39 poverty stricken 39 realities 39 structural imbalances 39 idiocies 39 poorest neighborhoods 39 inequalities 38 tyrannies 38 imperatives 38 abject poverty 38 legacies 38 maladies 38 plagues 38 increasingly interdependent 38 endemic corruption 38 nostrums 38 chronically underfunded 38 paradoxes 38 bureaucracies 38 backwaters 38 HIV AIDS pandemic 37 scourge 37 chronic underfunding 37 pathologies 37 faultlines 37 societal ills 37 realties 37 rapid urbanization 37 hypocrisies 37 inequality 37 injustices 37 root causes 37 overpopulation 37 urban slums 37 moral imperatives 37 resentments 37 Large swaths 37 endemic 37 ethnic rivalries 37 nots 37 moral decadence 37 discontents 37 imbalances 37 milieus 37 underdevelopment 36 economically deprived 36 metropolises 36 elites 36 religious fundamentalism 36 basic necessities 36 polities 36 strife ridden 36 uncomfortable truths 36 harsh realities 36 institutions 36 consumerism 36 polluted rivers 36 chronic ailments 36 ways 36 pieties 36 necessities 36 preoccupations 36 drylands 36 macroeconomic imbalances 36 predicaments 36 richly endowed 35 economies 35 HIV AIDS epidemic 35 Maternal mortality 35 preventable illnesses 35 epidemics 35 calamities 35 excesses