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/ 23 November 2007
This has been a year of misfortune for Bangladesh. Vast tracts of the country have twice disappeared under water as a result of unusually heavy monsoons, with a loss of crops and rise in the cost of basic foodstuffs. Cyclone Sidr, which has killed several thousand people and left millions homeless, is one of the worst recorded — the wind tears through the country.
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/ 8 September 2004
Poor rural migrants have become like characters in the folk-tales they no longer tell their children: fleeing the countryside to escape the evil spirits of want and poverty, they find the old enemies lying in wait for them in the urban slums that are their destination. Global poverty is in flight from rural areas and rushing headlong to the cities.