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Living on Pennies: When the Push for Survival Is a Full-Time Job. Davan Maharaj.

by Maharaj, Davan; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2005Article 77Global Issues. Publisher: Los Angeles Times, 2004ISSN: 1522-3221;.Subject(s): Africa -- Economic conditions | Poor -- Developing countries | Sub-Saharan Africa -- Economic conditions | Survival skills | Wages | Working poorDDC classification: 050 Summary: "What is it like to live on less than a dollar a day? Hundreds of millions in sub-Saharan Africa know. Their work is an endless cycle of bartering, hawking and scrounging to get by until tomorrow." (LOS ANGELES TIMES) This article examines the lives of those who live on less than a dollar a day in Goma, Congo, and includes personal stories and hopes for Congo's future.
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REF SIRS 2005 Global Issues Article 74 Diamonds: No One's Best Friend?. REF SIRS 2005 Global Issues Article 75 A Simple Plan to Save the World. REF SIRS 2005 Global Issues Article 76 Chronicle of a Coup. REF SIRS 2005 Global Issues Article 77 Living on Pennies: When the Push for Survival Is a Full-Time Job. REF SIRS 2005 Global Issues Article 77 Living on Pennies: Trading Tomorrow to Eat Today. REF SIRS 2005 Global Issues Article 78 Dying in Darfur. REF SIRS 2005 Global Issues Article 79 NGOs: Fighting Poverty, Hurting the Poor.

Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2005.

Originally Published: Living on Pennies: When the Push for Survival Is a Full-Time Job, July 11, 2004; pp. A1+.

"What is it like to live on less than a dollar a day? Hundreds of millions in sub-Saharan Africa know. Their work is an endless cycle of bartering, hawking and scrounging to get by until tomorrow." (LOS ANGELES TIMES) This article examines the lives of those who live on less than a dollar a day in Goma, Congo, and includes personal stories and hopes for Congo's future.

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