Developing Countries: Jobs and Livelihoods — [Mrs madeleine moon in the Chair]

Part of the debate – in Westminster Hall at 10:35 am on 15 June 2016.

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Photo of Mark Durkan Mark Durkan Social Democratic and Labour Party, Foyle 10:35, 15 June 2016

Should we not recognise that, even when people seem to be outside extreme poverty according to statistics and are earning more money, many are in newly urbanised centres in the developing world? Their income may be above the indicators, but that does not take account of the fact that they are paying crippling rents to live in shanty-town conditions, even though their working environment may be quite modern, and they pay huge costs for water. They may have a livelihood, but their living conditions may not be good.