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A year on from the Saffron revolution, the people of a once-prosperous nation are still mired in poverty.
According to the United Nations, the average daily pay in Myanmar is $0.67.
Al Jazeera's correspondent inside Myanmar assesses the situation in the country, a year after the military government stamped out pro-democracy protests.
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Mererani in northern Tanzania is the only place on earth where the precious stone tanzanite is mined. Every day thousands of children risk their lives in poorly constructed mine shafts for barely a meal a day. Despite efforts to curb this deadly practice, the global thirst for tanzanite continues to drive these children underground.
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January 2006
Nearly 4,000 children work in the Cerro Rico mines of Bolivia. Those who are not injured or buried alive often develop lung diseases. Miners here have a life expectancy of just 39.