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Poverty, together with the impossibility of making a living in their place of origin, makes entire families as well as youngsters and children leave rural areas and move to the streets of the big cities in India with the hope of surviving.
The main problem is the endemic poverty that a great part of the population endures, which has as yet to benefit from the huge economic takeoff that India has experienced in the last 15 years. According to Satyavir Singh, "the boom, quite on the contrary, has brought about an increase in the use of children in some dangerous work fields, such as construction".
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