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Port Moresby's Squatter Settlements

Port Moresby's Squatter Settlements

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Feb 24, 2012
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Rapid urbanization is putting pressure on infrastructure and public services in the urban centers of developing Pacific Island states, as much as it is across the globe, with 50 percent of the world’s people now living in cities as of 2010, spawning vast shantytowns, call them favelas, squatter settlements or what.

Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea’s capita…

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