Poverty masks huge enterprise in Asia's biggest slum
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The first sight for anyone flying into India's richest city is a sea of corrugated and tarpaulin-covered roofs beside a narrow, filth-choked river.
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But a new report from the Asian Development Bank also finds a growing gap between rich and poor.
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SHENZHEN, China -- Sweating in the bright afternoon sun, the men and women stand on the sides of the roads like homeless people clutching wrinkled cardboard signs. Waving the boards, the real estate agents call out to cars zooming by.
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The city wants slum dwellers in apartments, but demolitions have left thousands homeless.
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China's gleaming skyscrapers and big Olympic plans hide the realities of political oppression. Take the case of Chen Guangcheng
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A crisis decades in the making has reduced middle-class people in New Delhi, IndiaÂs richest city, to foraging for water.
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BRUSSELS, Aug 31 (IPS) - Poverty in the Palestinian territories has reached  "unprecedented levels" because they have been held under  an "economic siege" for almost seven years, a United  Nations body has found.
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The fabled heart of the city's largest manufacturing industry continues to shrink, buffeted by cheap labor overseas, rising rents and an exodus of skilled workers.
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Working in poverty-stricken areas  gives corporate travelers an up-close look at global problems  such as disease, illiteracy or injustice. It also puts them in  a position to bring about change.
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Corporations have made India a laboratory for extending modern technological conveniences to the worldâs poor.
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MUMBAI, India _ Dharavi, a sprawling slum of tin-roofed shacks where goats nose through smoking garbage heaps and kids play by open sewers, hardly looks like prime real estate.
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Poor farmersâ simple methods have helped lead to millions of newly tree-covered acres in a dust-choked region.
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Where are the most people crammed into the least space? All over Asia, for starters.
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A Bridgewater company is betting the road to success goes through some of the world's poorest countries.
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The rapidly developing economies in Asia mean fewer rice paddies.
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The politically sensitive gap in incomes between China's booming cities and the poor countryside is widening
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VANCOUVER (CP) - It's a daily grind for the thousands of junkies living in the city's eastside slum.