Sentence examples for poverty belts from inspiring English sources

Besides, the five typology of resettlement housing has brought about socio-spatial consequences including a spatial mismatch for lower socio-economic groups in suburban areas, which may lead to the formation of poverty belts around Chinese cities.

"We used to call them the poverty belt, and now we call them the revolution belt," he said of the towns surrounding Damascus, the capital.

He later described in an autobiographical novel how his father "was congratulated on having given a new sheen to the poverty belt".

One Chinese web portal devoted a special page to reports on the poverty belt, with a headline "so close and yet so far".

By the mid-1970s a multitiered "poverty belt"—a ring of impoverished settlements largely populated by poorer rural migrants—had sprung up to encircle the city.

This may explain why rural governorates have been more restive, in addition to those suburbs of Damascus that comprise the "poverty belt".

This precarious food security situation is especially dangerous in the central Indian tribal belt (also known as the poverty belt) which is a typical rainfed area dominated by tribal communities.

"EUROPEAN cities with an African countryside" is how a report published in China this month describes the gap between booming Beijing, the nearby port-city of Tianjin and a "belt of poverty" around them.

In contrast, none of the respondents living in outlier poverty counties were "stroke belt" residents and nearly all (98.4%) resided in metropolitan areas.

Rather than share in the amenities and structure of city life, the displaced rural poor have formed a belt of rustic poverty on the cities southern fringe.

The best part about the Mission Belt is that a dollar from every belt sold goes to fight hunger and poverty worldwide through micro-lending.