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It is chronic, infectious, a plague on both rural and urban poor, and, in her view at least, neglected.

It calls for "inclusive growth" that spreads prosperity to the countryside and urban poor who have missed out on China's boom.

August is proving to be a particularly bloody month, with the urban poor and rural dwellers taking the brunt of earlier attacks.

Can today's urban poor expect to see a similar transformation?

President Hu and Mr Wen will face considerable pressure to do more to help farmers and the urban poor.

But communist armed forces established bases in the south and turned from the urban poor to the peasantry as the base of their support.

Under his direction, local governments have embarked on a campaign to build unprecedented quantities of social housing for the urban poor.

And in poorer nations generally the proportion of urban poor is actually increasing faster than the rate of urbanisation.

Support for the protests comes mostly from the rural and urban poor and working class, who support Mr. Thaksin's populist economic polices.

More than half of the world's population lives in cities, with the urban poor constituting a growing proportion of urban dwellers.

The conditions under which the urban poor and professional people existed as independent social strata have virtually been eliminated.

A smaller scheme to provide basic food and shelter for the urban poor was also expanded.

If politicians do nothing, or the wrong things, the world faces more misery, especially among the urban poor.

It erodes the social capital of the urban poor and increases the vulnerability of groups already at risk.

Fifteen years ago, the Harvard sociologist William Julius Wilson published When Work Disappears, focused on the new urban poor.

While higher food prices may benefit small farmers, they could anger the urban poor, with unpredictable political consequences.

The unambiguous losers when it comes to high food prices are the urban poor.

He says it has become a crisis for the world's most vulnerable, including the urban poor.

The same held true at household level, indicating that the rural landless and the urban poor were most-at risk.

Worst affected are the urban poor and food-deficit farmers who are dependent on the market to access food.

The rural poor see wealth only on television; the urban poor witness lavish lifestyles in the flesh.

Such investments often create what sociologists call "the new urban poor" .

Human rights violation of the urban poor by eviction and rendering 200000 people homeless.

The rural poor had become the urban poor, and in the process they'd become invisible.

Pray for the 25 million urban poor caught in Chinas painful economic re-structuring.

An unexpected bout of food-price inflation in 2007, which looks likely to continue in 2008, will anger the urban poor.

Demolitions , of course, are not new to the urban poor.

And always it is the urban poor, especially slum dwellers, who are most at risk when disaster strikes.

He spoke angrily about the condition of the urban poor.

These conditions are costly to treat, for households and societies, and they are increasingly concentrated in the urban poor.

Crowded in slums, the urban poor cannot grow their own food; they have no choice but to buy it.

Quality lifts, mostly working people or the urban poor, and their quality of material is raw silk clothing, daily necessities and so on.

This is the second worldwide trend that makes urban health matter, especially for the urban poor.

But the urban poor suffered a great deal and the majority of developing countries were hit by higher inflation and lower living standards.

The disease is common among migrant populations in China and the government offers free TB drugs to rural and urban poor patients.

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