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Cut urban poverty: law minister [1]

The government agencies and non-govern-ment organisations need to speed efforts to lift millions of urban people out of poverty, Law Minister Barrister Shafique Ahmed said yesterday.

The country's fast-expanding major cities are home to 80 lakh urban extreme poor, with Dhaka alone accommodating more than half.

Every year, a large number of people migrate to the cities to make a living due in

Publication Date: 
04/05/2011
Daily Star (Bangladesh) [2]
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Bangladesh [3], Poverty [4], Dhaka [5], Natural Disasters [6], Migration [7], Slums [8]
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