poverty
- Slumdog paupers: The Oscar-nominated film has made £70m but its two child stars still live in abject poverty
- Their home is a flimsy structure made of tarpaulins and blankets in the overcrowded Behrampada shanty area, where rats crawl around in daylight and sewage runs untreated as children play barefoot.
- 2009-02-20 to bestof, business, movies, poverty, story by bagoly
- Ghaith Abdul-Ahad visits the impoverished camps for the men building the skyscrapers of Dubai and Abu Dhabi
- All of these men are part of a huge scam that is helping the construction boom in the Gulf. Like hundreds of thousands of migrant workers, they each paid more than £1,000 to employment agents in India and Pakistan. They were promised double the wages they
- 2008-10-09 to bestof, business, dubai, human, poverty, society by bagoly
- Hanna Rosin: American Murder Mystery
- Why is crime rising in so many American cities? The answer implicates one of the most celebrated antipoverty programs of recent decades.
- 2008-06-30 to bestof, crime, data, ghetto, poverty, society, sociology, urbanisation by soobrosa
- Sara Corbett: Can the Cellphone Help End Global Poverty?
- To design a cellphone that will sell to essentially the only people left on earth who don’t yet have one, which is to say people who are illiterate, making $4 per day or less and have no easy access to electricity, the challenges are considerable.
- 2008-04-16 to bestof, business, mobile, poverty, society, telco, telecommunication by soobrosa
- Gang mayhem grips LA
- A bloody conflict between Hispanic and black gangs is spreading across Los Angeles. Hundreds are dying as whole districts face the threat of ethnic cleansing. Paul Harris reports from the epicentre of America's new urban warfare
- 2007-03-28 to bestof, gangs, poverty, society by bagoly
- Richard Dowden: Thousands of child 'witches' turned on to the streets to starve
- Kinshasa sects make fortunes from exorcisms.
- 2007-03-20 to poverty, sects, society, witchcraft by soobrosa
- Mike Davis: Green Zones and Slum Cities
- Genuinely urban cities are the most environmentally efficient form of existing with nature that we possess, but we're building cities without urban qualities.
- 2006-10-16 to cities, freakonomics, future, population, poverty, power.play, urban.studies by soobrosa
- Mike Davis: Turning a Planet into a Slum
- The two major poor cities of 19th century Europe that fit our present model were Dublin and Naples, but nobody saw them as the future.
- 2006-10-12 to cities, freakonomics, future, population, poverty, power.play, urban.studies by soobrosa
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