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Describe the extent of urban poverty in a developing country and the efforts of national government to overcome urban poverty in general.

Describe the extent of urban poverty in a developing country and the efforts of the national government to overcome urban poverty in general.


The colonial city’s main square with its vaulted church, government buildings and curio

shops interspersed with chic restaurants for the nouveau rich and tourists are in stark

contrast to the surrounding dark alleys, which stretch blindly into another world. In one

such alley, a hollow-eyed woman sitting on the sidewalk begging with her three small

children looks harried and weary. They are ingrained with grime and, their clothes

caked in dirt are mere rags. Their eyes, piercing and resigned seem accustomed to

their invisibility. This is but one of the many faces of poverty in Peru. Like its fellow

countries in Latin America it bears all the hallmarks of increasing urban chaos. In a

country already burdened with high levels of poverty; the swiftness of urbanization,

economic crisis and structural adjustm...

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