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A boy squats next to a garbage dump at a slum in Mumbai

23 Nov 2009

Source: Reuters

A boy squats next to a garbage dump at a slum in Mumbai November 23, 2009. More than a third of India's population survives on less than one dollar a day, according to a 2007 United Nations report. REUTERS/Arko Datta (INDIA ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY)
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