But these are also, as in other developing countries, mainly problems of the urban poor.
Many of Preval's voters are among the urban poor, who say they want Aristide to return.
But among the urban poor, he has been winning support with a string of investments.
Another reason is that Britain's most prominent Afro-Caribbean institutions the black evangelical churches are dominated by the urban poor.
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"These poor people, we have to educate them, " said Wardah Hafidz, coordinator of the Urban Poor Consortium.
Iraq's oldest political party, the Communists, is also seeking to win back its old constituency among the urban poor.
Similarly, it was the urban poor of Honduras and its neighbours who were smitten hardest by Hurricane Mitch in 1998.
The urban poor, being more mobile, do not always know their neighbours well enough to act as guarantors for them.
While the urban poor were rioting about food prices, a fleet of new Mercedes cars was ordered for the 50-odd cabinet ministers.
Those without the landless, the urban poor and the illiterate are being left behind.
In the latter part of the 19th century, many of the urban poor either shared beds, or took different shifts in the same bed.
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The study also cited other factors as contributing to the plight of the urban poor such as improper sanitation, contaminated drinking water, and urban pollution.
It is the urban poor that should worry and maybe the rulers of poor and fragile nations, who have traditionally striven to keep food prices low.
But analysts say its main power-base is among the urban poor.
The security firms that provide a round-the-clock guard for every private business of substance in Sri Lanka employ about 150, 000 people, mostly from the urban poor.
This indicates that the factors that restrain dynamism in non-oil segments of the Angolan economy, also act as constraints on the very survival of the urban poor.
The pictures of the thirty-three Pruitt-Igoe buildings imploding during a planned demolition in 1972 have often been used to assert how government subsidies for the urban poor have failed.
Years later, I joined Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP) in Bangalore, India to support their slum sanitation programme, seeking to demonstrate viable models for government investment.
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The urban poor, of course, will not be forgotten.
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The urban poor living in such settlements under terrible conditions of squalor, crime, and insecurity now make up 30-40%t of the population of cities such as Manila, Jakarta, Mexico City, and Lagos.
The next step was to find a partner with an understanding of the challenges of urban sanitation in the developing world, cue Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP) joining the partnership.
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The South African National Taxi Council, representing some 95% of taxi operators, has aired the idea of launching a low-cost taxi airline to cater for the urban poor, few of whom have been anywhere near a plane.
The practice has become increasingly controversial in recent years, feeding public anger over a family-planning system that critics say falls particularly hard on the urban poor who often can't afford to pay the fine to have a second child.
The history of finance is also a history of inclusion and economic empowerment, and many of its success stories started as social innovations: from cooperative banks for farmers to community banks for the urban poor, all the way to microcredit for the bottom billion today.
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On the eve of the conference, the FAO and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development issued a joint report that warned that the urban poor in food-importing countries will require increased humanitarian aid to stave off hunger and undernourishment that can also lead to civil strife.
These young people, especially women and the rural and urban poor, are not equipped to join the ambitions of many African countries to achieve middle income status in the coming years.
These young people, especially women and the rural and urban poor, are not equipped to join in on the ambitions in some Asian countries for building strong IT and knowledge based economies.
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