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    two trusted lieutenants‚ Sheikh Munir from Dharavi and Vishnu Patil from Dombivili. They were soon joined by another hood‚ Uday Shetty in March‚ 1980. The gang’s first robbery took place on 5 April 1980‚ in which they stole an Ambassador car. The vehicle was later used to loot 5‚700 from Laxmi Trading Company near Currey Road. On 15 April‚ the gang savagely assaulted and almost killed Sheikh Aziz‚ an enemy of Sheikh Munir‚ near Kala Killa in the Dharavi slum. On 30 April‚ they stabbed two police constables

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    Unit 1: Going Global Revision Guide Keywords Birth rate – the number of births per 1‚000 people per year in a region Branch plant – a factory built in a country by a TNC that has its headquarters elsewhere Core- the most developed and highly populated region of a country Death rate – the number of deaths per 1‚000 people per year in a region Deindustrialisation – the decline of regionally important manufacturing industries Dependency – when a nation relies for income on outside

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    Bombay/Mumbai: The Postmodern City Author(s): Mira Kamdar Reviewed work(s): Source: World Policy Journal‚ Vol. 14‚ No. 2 (Summer‚ 1997)‚ pp. 75-88 Published by: and the Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40209533 . Accessed: 07/09/2012 14:37 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars‚ researchers‚ and students

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    Paragraphs: 1. Intro 2. What is modern? Academic views and what people in cities of the global south perceive as being modern(Bangkok example) 3. What is the global south- which cities belong to this category 4. Technological progress as a form of modernity using positive examples from India (Bangalore) and less positive views from Lagos 5. Employment structure e.g the informal sector often viewed as not modern. Robinsons view of cape town 6. Education- literacy rates Islamabad 7. Linking

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    Multiple Source Paper Slumdog Millionaire: The Feel-Good Movie When Danny Boyle’s film Slumdog Millionaire came out at the end of 2008‚ people instantly fell in love with it. In 2009 it was nominated for ten Academy Awards and won eight‚ which was the most won by any film that year. Everyone seemed to be very drawn to the “feel good” aspect of the movie where a poor kid like Jamal‚ the main character of Boyle’s film‚ can overcome the massive obstacles thrown in front of his path to success and

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    and traffic congestion will occur. Generally however‚ the issues facing MICs and LICs will differ from those in HICs. For example in MICs there are schemes such as Indonesia’s Transmigration scheme or China’s One Child Policy and the formation of slums in Rio de Janeiro whereas in HICs there are ageing populations such as those in the UK or France. Indonesia’s Transmigration programme involved moving 20 million people from overcrowded islands such as Java to some underpopulated places such as Sumatra

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    Rashmi Bansal is a writer‚ entrepreneur and a youth expert. She is the author of four bestselling books on entrepreneurship - Stay Hungry Stay Foolish‚ Connect the Dots‚ I Have a Dream‚ and Poor Little Rich Slum. Stay Hungry Stay Foolish features the stories of 25 MBAs who left lucrative jobs to follow the rough road of entrepreneurship. The book created a new record in Indian publishing by selling over 300‚000 copies and has been translated into 8 languages. Rashmi’s second book‚ Connect the Dots focuses

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    Triumph of the city Triumph of the city‚ by Edward L. Glaeser‚ was published in the United States by the Penguin Group in February 2012. In this book‚ the author makes clear points how cities have not only survived but thrived; Glaeser’s premise is that human beings are best when they are close together‚ that cities provide the lifestyle that brings humans closer together. In order to solve all the problems and to have a better future‚ he encourages people to live in cities together so that we can

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    Serving the World’s Poor‚ Profitably by C.K. Prahalad and Allen Hammond Reprint r0209c September 2002 HBR Case Study Growing for Broke r0209a Paul Hemp HBR at Large Crucibles of Leadership r0209b Warren G. Bennis and Robert J. Thomas Big Picture Serving the World’s Poor‚ Profitably r0209c C.K. Prahalad and Allen Hammond The Curse of the Superstar CEO r0209d Rakesh Khurana Taking the Mystery Out of Investor Behavior r0209e Kevin P Coyne and Jonathan

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    The Market at the Bottom of the Pyramid urn on your television and you will see calls for money to help :he world’s 4 billion poor-people who live on far less than $2 a day. In ict‚ the cry is so constant and the need so chronic that the tendency for nany people is to tune out these images as well as the message. Even :hose who do hear and heed the cry are limited in what they can :ccomplish. For more than 50 years‚ the Vorld Bank‚ donor nations‚ tarious aid agencies‚ narional governments‚ and

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