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Poverty in Afghanistan is driving some families to take desperate measures.
They are sending boys as young as five across the border into Pakistan, to buy cheap flour, and smuggle it back home.
But the youngsters are risking injury, even death.
Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr reports.
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Native Americans in the US state of Dakota are being driven to alcohol abuse and suicide.
In the second installment on a series of special reports highlighting poverty issues in the United States, Al Jazeera's John Cookson meets a community of native Americans and reports on their daily struggle to survive.
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Haiti is one of the poorest countries in the western hemisphere and the poverty has fuelled restavek, a system of domestic servitude of hundreds of thousands of children that is tantamount to modern-day slavery.
The country's government acknowledges that child slaves exist but says it is part of the culture.
Al Jazeera's Teresa Bo reports.
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Paul Polak, author of Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail, discusses his 12 steps for effective problem solving to end global poverty.
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One in eight Americans - that is 37 million people - live below the poverty line. We the People travels to Oakland, California, where a lack of opportunities, little investment in education and the legacy of the drug epidemic of the 1980s have created a cycle of poverty.
