Poverty

John Pilger, whose film War on Democracy is now out on DVD, comments.

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Gabon is a good example of why judging how well a country is doing by per-capita income is just useless. It is oil-rich and yet half the population lives below the poverty line. World Bank/IMF strictures are doing their part to help keep it that way.

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Africa’s squatters are up against ruthless state power. Andrew Meldrum reports on Harare and beyond.

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A photo essay of squatter life.

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Robert Neuwirth tells what he learned from his two years of living with squatters on three continents.

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Global squattertalk.

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Profiles from the frontlines: the politics of survival in some of the world’s grittiest slums.

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A poet’s view of from Rio’s favelas by Gabriela Tôrres Barbosa.

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By 2030 there will be over two billion squatters worldwide. Richard Swift reports on their attempt to carve out their own piece of urban space.

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The disaster in New Orleans shows the US poor to be a world apart, believes Jeremy Seabrook.

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Part of the solution or part of the problem? Mark Curtis takes issue with bingo politics.

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