zubożały Englisch:

Haiti is a nation that seems hopelessly impoverished.

an impoverished young actor

This impoverished country can no longer afford to support expensive worthless kids like you!

And where you have civil wars, it almost automatically translates into kids losing their parents or one of their parents, and in some cases families becoming impoverished.

For a long time society was strongly hierarchal and unequal, primarily composed of peasants. The most backward, impoverished population, were crushed by the weight of the taxes, wars, and famines.