From Mumbai to Rio to New Orleans, organized tours of poor areas have grown in popularity.
Sure, some excellent charter schools have really stellar records with kids in poor areas.
With a few well-publicised exceptions, they were mostly male, young and from poor areas.
In poor areas of Chicago, residents have set up gated communities to ward off crime.
The sub-post office is often the last business left in poor areas after other shops close.
Other complaints have forced the government to provide clean water and electricity in some poor areas.
The closure of branches means that access is becoming more of a problem, particularly in poor areas.
Intestinal worms are estimated to affect up to two billion people around the world, mainly in poor areas.
KIPP, America's largest chain of charter schools, shows that non-profit organisations can grow and succeed in poor areas.
The passage of the federal Community Reinvestment Act in the 1970s encouraged banks to build branches in poor areas.
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CDFIs do an important job in providing finance for projects in poor areas.
She has heard from around 450 groups, nearly half of them teachers keen to improve education in poor areas.
The Community Reinvestment Act, for example, requires banks to invest a certain portion of their lending in poor areas.
One idea is to arrange summer schools for able children in poor areas.
He promised to ease social frustration by accelerating programmes for urban renewal and for helping young people in poor areas.
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Tax credits for those investing in poor areas, another idea borrowed from the United States, are also favoured by the chancellor.
Kids really would pick up a trumpet in poor areas and learn it - and without those kids a culture dies.
ESSEC, a top (also private) business school, both run schemes to recruit bright pupils from poor areas, many of them non-white.
But although the secondary market for mortgages is well developed, there is nothing comparable for small business loans in poor areas.
The white paper will echo the Rogers view that many of the ills of poor areas are due to poor city design.
And neither is it likely to impress Labour supporters in poor areas.
After Bobby Kennedy visited Mississippi, the government threw money at poor areas and decided where and how the cash should be spent.
It is fair to say that Chavez basically won in the rural and very poor areas and lost in the urban areas.
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Supporters credit Mr Street, who emerged from a humble Philadelphia district, with lowering crime, improving poor areas and sprucing up City Hall.
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Again he disagrees, claiming that children in poor areas of Britain often have nothing to distract them, which he says leads to anti-social behavior.
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Parents in poor areas were offered the choice of transferring their children to wealthier schools, but capacity limits made many such requests impossible to grant.
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Google itself supports a project called Geeks Without Frontiers, a nonprofit group that donates computers and related technology to poor areas around the world.
Many investors have an exaggerated fear of risk in poor areas.
Most of those without electricity are in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, where power generation is about a tenth of where it is in other poor areas.
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The zip-code notion is more subtle: poor areas have fewer supermarkets, with their greater choice of fruit and vegetables, and more convenience stores, with their narrower range.
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