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    The issues facing urban centers in developing countries are enormous; the consequences of rapid growth‚ underdeveloped infrastructure capacity‚ severe poverty‚ socio-economic inequality‚ need for affordable housing‚ resource scarcity‚ corrupt urban governance‚ lack of regulatory framework and continuing rural-urban migration are all impending and dire. The need for good comprehensive plans‚ well integrated development guidelines and management is urgent and the opportunity it opens for work in the

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    Albania: The Development of a Developing Country Albania‚ a small country located in Southeastern Europe‚ is a nation that does not have a true identity – its people are Muslim and Christian‚ it is a country that is both and poor‚ it is as much urban as it is rural‚ and has evolved from monarchy to socialism and now to fledgling democracy. In other words‚ Albania and its people have seen it all. The extremes of Albanian society are vivid‚ and underlying tensions are evident. But Albania is not "another

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    What is the Third World Debt Crisis? Many developing countries have very large debts‚ and the amount of money they owe is quickly increasing. Trying to pay off the debt (debt service) has become a serious problem for these countries‚ and it causes great hardship for their people. Take the region of Sub-Saharan Africa‚ for example. This region pays $10 billion every year in debt service. That is about 4 times as much money as the countries in the region spend on health care and education.

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    Running head: THE PHILIPPINES’ AND THEIR THIRD WORLD STATUS The Philippines’ and their 3rd World Status Latrice Jones Professor Davis 27 CT 2012 The Philippines’ and their Third World Status The country that I have chosen to research is the Philippines‚ by definition a third world country is the underdeveloped nations of the world‚ especially those with widespread poverty‚ the group of developing nations‚ especially of Asia and Africa

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    Public Disclosure Authorized 65159 Rural Out-Migration and Family Life in Cities in Mongolia Public Disclosure Authorized Background Paper Anqing Shi* East Asian and Pacific Region/CMU The World Bank Public Disclosure Authorized May 12‚ 2011 Public Disclosure Authorized _____________________________ *Consultant. I am grateful to Andrew Mason for his guidance on this project‚ to Nancy Cooke and Elaine Sun for their support and encouragements‚ to Andrew Mason and Trang

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    Good morning fellow classmates and teachers. Have you ever taken a look at the labels attached to your clothing? You will find that most of our clothes are produced in underdeveloped countries such as China‚ Indonesia‚ and Vietnam. Whenever we purchase items produced in these countries‚ we enable major corporations to continue to utilize malnourished‚ underpaid‚ and under aged workers. Most of these workers go to work every day with an empty stomach at workplaces that do not meet the basic standards

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    I am writing this paper on the hazards of Urbanization and the sequence of environmental destruction that follow. Home to four of the ten fastest-growing counties in the nation– Atlanta‚ Georgia has directly contributed to major environmental impacts that need to be addressed in order to preserve the quality of life of its inhabitants. The largest metropolitan area in the southeast‚ Atlanta has the fastest growth rate of any city within the southeast with a population of 4.1 million people. These

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    PROBLEMS OF URBANIZATION Urbanization‚ or urban drift is the physical growth of urban areas as a result of global change. Urbanization is also defined by the United Nations as movement of people from rural to urban areas with population growth equating to urban migration. The United Nations projected that half of the world’s population would live in urban areas at the end of 2008 Urbanization is closely linked to modernization‚ industrialization‚ and the sociological process of rationalization

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    GGR 207 S CITIES‚ URBANIZATION‚ AND UNEVEN DEVELOPMENT ASSIGNMENT # 2 Summer 2010 Instructor: A. Walks Stability and Change in the Canadian Urban Systems August 11‚ 2010 The Canadian urban system is a dynamic and an ever changing system that has shown significant changes and evolved remarkably over the last few decades. These changes are measured by analyzing the geographical trends in population and income. In the following essay‚ date from Statistics Canada and Census Canada

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    take great efforts and contributions from all. Canada and the third world are examples of countries which are experiencing poverty‚ yet each differ in different ways. Once seeing the multitudes of condominiums‚ expensive restaurants‚ and streets jammed with cars‚ one would never see Canada as a place suffering from hunger‚ lack of food or clothing. Yet poverty exists. Poverty in Canada cannot be compared to that of a 3rd world country‚ since many of the poor have access to transportation and television

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