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A mother and her child making bricks, Dhaka, Bangladesh, July 2007. The labour force in Dhaka grew twice as fast as in the country as a whole in the late 1990s largely due to continuing migration and increasing female participation in the labour-force.
Manoocher Deghati/IRIN

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