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    Guateng‚ South Africa. It is just one of the many slums in South Africa. The majority of residents in Kliptown are in extreme poverty. They face terrible living conditions. There housing consists of small shacks‚ if that‚ with no running water‚ electricity and more times than not‚ no food on the table. Living conditions like these are not uncommon in the slums of Kliptown. These conditions are often the result of the high unemployment rates in the slum. Along with high unemployment rates‚ there are

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    someone begging on the streets or when we see dirty‚ broken roads in shabby slums. One also feels jealous when we hear about the United States advancing in every field. By 2020‚ India will be on the same platform on which America is now. The first and foremost thing I see in India 2020 is 100 percent literacy rate. Every citizen in the country will be able to read‚ write and understand any one language including the farmers and slum-dwellers. India will not have any unemployment. The people will earn their

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    socio-economic conditions to which the person belongs. For example‚ a rich family will generate nearly four to five kg of mixed waste per day; a middle class family will generate between one to three kg of mixed waste per day and a poor family‚ in slums‚ will generate close to 500grams per day. Management of Waste The Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) is formally responsible for the management of waste in the city. The prevailing approach has been one of collection and disposal that

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    not been labeled as “poverty porn” due to the way it exploits a poverty stricken Mumbai society and promotes “slum tourism”. While some critics accuse the film of exploiting western perceptions of India‚ with its depictions of impoverished slums ruled by gangsters‚ as well as other unwholesome characters‚ others claim that the film neither shows negativity towards the slums nor shows the slum dwellers as people of sorrow. Rather‚ it shows a story of hope and survival. My own view is with the latter

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    wealthy. (Doc 5) Workers lived in dirty areas called slums and each slum was packed with many people. (Doc5) Sometimes there were six or more were living in a single small room‚ in a four room house. There was also no draining system‚ pot holes everywhere and strewn with animals. (Doc 5) Many people died in the slums because of bad ventilation and defective water supplies; people died from diseases in the slums. More people died in slums that the annual loss of life from filth and bad ventilation

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    been assumed.” (85) This passage gives the reader and the Husain family hope when they realize that the family isn’t as poor as they seem. “If the bulldozers came to flatten the slum‚ a decent hut was seen as a kind of insurance.”

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    the middle of the twentieth century‚ “favelas” or slums had grown to astronomical sizes‚ containing mass amounts of impoverished people. These favelas were overrun by hunger‚ filth‚ drugs‚ and disorder‚ making them extremely unsuitable places to live. While the police and government do not get involved with the issues of the slums‚ security is provided by the community and‚ more often than not‚ drug gangs keeping control over crime. Life in a slum of Brazil is certainly challenging in more ways

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    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Stamford Journal of Microbiology‚ December 2012. ISSN: 2074-5346 Vol. 2‚ Issue 1 Assessment of pollution caused by tannery-waste and its impact on aquatic bacterial community in Hajaribag‚ Dhaka Mahbubul Hasan Siddiqee‚1‡ Md. Saiful Islam2 and M. Majibur Rahman3 assay 1 Microbiology Program‚ Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences‚ BRAC University‚ Dhaka-1212‚ Bangladesh; Department of Microbiology‚ Stamford University Bangladesh‚ Dhaka-1217‚ Bangladesh;

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    was developed and promoted as a heritage village which today acts as one of the important tourist attraction element in the Taj city. The current project is City wide Slum Upgrading Project (CUSP) in which I was thoroughly involved during my training period. In this project I was involved in understanding the conditions of the slums through field visits‚ interaction with local dwellers and observations. I was also involved in designing various spaces for selected communities. List of works:

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    registration system....................7 3. The similar problem and solution in Brazil…………..…8 3.1 The problem in Brazil…………………………………..…....8 3.2 The solution in Brazil……………………………………..….8 3.2.1 New attitude and policy to manage slum………………..…8 3.2.2 To upgrade the slum and improve living conditions...……..8 3.2.3 Increase social inclusion…………………………………....9 3.2.4 Through positive anti-poverty policy…………………........9 4. The solution of labor migration’s problem in China........9 4.1 Learn governance

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