A decrepit two storey wooden apartment building that still houses families despite its poor condition and lack of facilities. It stands beside a newly built modern housing estate.

Children play in 'Campo do America', a poor community in Fortaleza, located in the middle of one of the richest regions of the city. In the background, is the Mansao Macedo high-end estate, where some...

An aerial view of a luxury housing development on Lake Michelle which is separated from the Sunnydale township by a high wall and an area of grassland.

Gecekondu, a poor residential area largely inhabited by migrants from rural Anatolia. It is rapidly being surrounded by prestigious highrise buildings in Atasehir, an 'Urban Transformation Zone' on th...

A girl stands beside a telegraph pole and a woman selling unspun wool in Gecekondu, a poor residential area largely inhabited by migrants from rural Anatolia. It is rapidly being surrounded by prestig...

A boy playing in a poor residential area that is rapidly being surrounded by prestigious high rise buildings in Atasehir, an 'Urban Transformation Zone' on the Asian side of the city. The housing deve...

A child plays in the street in Sulukule in the Fatih district. Sulukule, a historic Roma district, has been razed after it was declared an 'Urban Transformation Zone' by the municipality and new luxur...

Roma children playing among rubble in a street in Sulukule in the Fatih district. Sulukule, a historic Roma district, has been razed after it was declared an 'Urban Transformation Zone' by the municip...

A man is collecting empty plastic bottles from the rubbish bins on Wangfujing Street. Behind him is a huge billboard advertisement for luxury watch brand Longines and a stall selling cold drinks.

A group of brick makers with their boss (with sunglasses).

A man carrying large bundles of recyclable scraps walks past a luxury boutique.

A shoe-shiner and a beggar on a street corner in the Spanish-built historic centre of potosi.

A person in a car throws a coin at a beggar who sits barefoot on a street in the city centre.

People gathered on waste ground near the five star Corinthia Hotel.

A street child polishes the shoes of a white man outside an office block.

Clothes drying outside a shack near the huge palace that the Saudis are building on the Tangier's coast.

A businessman makes a call on a mobile phone while standing beside a beggar checking his change in front of a branch of the Fuji Bank.

A gardener who has finished his work in one of the middle class homes in the upmarket Munro Drive neighbourhood takes his shopping to a bus stop nearby to head back home into one of the poorer neighbo...

Kibera slum in Nairobi seen from the air.

Princess Alia bint Hussein of Jordan visits the home of a family living in poverty in order to distribute aid vouchers.

Princess Alia bint Hussein of Jordan visits the home of a family living in poverty in order to distribute aid vouchers.

A cycle courier looks on as a young businessman crouches down to offer a homeless man, begging on Cornhill, in the City of London.

A labourer rests outside a luxury hotel.

A cleaner passing an image of a luxury apartment displayed on the ground floor of a residential complex in Chaoyang district.

A Porche car passes a man standing at the roadside holding a sign that reads: 'NEED CASH DESPERATELY, WILL DO ANY JOB!!!" Manchester Village is a wealthy town in New England.

Slums surround the newly built Powei district in Northern Mumbai. With exclusive residential towers, corporate offices and shopping malls, this district is one of the most desirable in Mumbai.

A woman walks past an illegal migrant sleeping at the roadside. Many of migrants come to the region to pick olives but this year there is competition for the work. The economic collapse means that wor...

A woman, who collects rubbish for recycling, stands with her bags of scavenged material beneath a billboard advertisement for a telecommunications company that features a group of smiling, fashionable...

A man pushes his bicycle, loaded with melons, past a billboard advertisement for Oman Air's first class service.

A man driving a Mercedes-Benz car passes a pinapple vendor sitting at the roadside.

A street vendor's child sleeps on a bench beside a McDonald's fast food outlet as the diners look on.

Rich and poor Roma play cards together on the backstreets in Buzescu. Buzescu is known for it's ultra-wealthy Roma and their bizarre mansions that line the main street. The Roma of Buzescu are part of...

Small houses meet with unfinished mansions in the back streets of Buzescu. Buzescu is known for it's ultra-wealthy Roma and their bizarre mansions that line the main street. The Roma of Buzescu are pa...

An unemployed man squats beneath a poster advertising Wealth Management services at a local bank.

Street child sleeping outside a McDonald's franchise in this southern city as middle class consumers eating inside look on.

A poor man crossing Paradeplatz, with UBS headquarters behind and that of Credit Suisse at right. Vault containing gold and other secrets are thought to lie beneath this square in the centre of Zurich...

A black maid carries a dog's leash for her white employer on as they walk a dog on a whites only beach.

Looming over low grade housing, the newly built headquarters for Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services Limited (IL&FS), an Indian infrastructure development and finance company, is one of many n...

Shops and crumbling old slum buildings in front of a modern office building in the Arya Nagar area of Mumbai.

A modern office building being constructed behind an old crumbling residential area.

Shops and crumbling old slum buildings in front of a modern block of flats in the Arya Nagar area of Mumbai. As part of a development program the slum dwellers will eventually be offered housing in th...

Shops and crumbling old slum buildings in front of a modern office building in the Arya Nagar area of Mumbai.

Shops and crumbling old slum buildings in front of a modern office building in the Arya Nagar area of Mumbai.

Shops and crumbling old buildings in front of a modern office building in the Arya Nagar area of Mumbai.

A modern high rise building with slum dwellers in front.

A modern high rise building contrasts the older buildings in the poor area of Bhuleshwar, central Mumbai.

Wage labourers shop at a weekly market in Gurgaon. In the background is the American Express building and a few expensive residential buildings.

Skyscrapers under construction in Mumbai's financial district tower over a group of dilapidated old buildings.

A woman walking under an umberella passes two men begging in front of The Bay department store on Avenue Union.

Beggars hang around outside as they try to get money from departing guests from the wedding ceremony of British/Punjabi couple Lindsay and Navneet Singh at a gurdwara in Amritsar.

Professional beggars hassle the groom at a party before the wedding of British/Punjabi couple Lindsay and Navneet Singh.

Migrant workers outside their temporary housing beside the construction site of a new luxury apartment enclave.

A child sleeps on a small piece of fabric in an underpass in Mumbai. It is estimated that there are 11 million street children in India - at least 125,000 children live on the streets of Mumbai.

A tented settlement in the shadow of one of the ultra-modern buildings that make up the Infosys complex in Bangalore. Infosys Technologies Ltd. is an Indian company which provides consulting and IT se...

Two women smile as they avoid a woman begging on the street in an exclusive shopping district of Addis Ababa.

Canary Wharf in the distance behind the Aylesbury Estate in Walworth, Southwark, London. Most of the estate, which houses some of the poorest people in the country, is due for demolition within the ne...

Canary Wharf in the distance behind the Aylesbury Estate in Walworth, Southwark, London. Most of the estate, which houses some of the poorest people in the country, is due for demolition within the ne...

A farmer harvets his crops in front of a futuristic office complex.

Farmers harvest their crops in front of a futuristic office complex.

A man and his flock of sheep sift through a pile of rubbish next to a colourful and elaborate wedding hall in Kabul.

A businessman supervises a man working in a slum area building a new road in Kampala.

A poor man sits listening to the radio while rich people play golf.

In a small slum in Calcutta, a woman washes dishes in a swamp water puddle that is a good breeding site for malaria mosquitoes. In the background, "New India" middle class modern housing.

A poor residential area in front of a new office block in Hong Kong.

A homeless man lies on a street in central Toronto.

Man in a wooden boat navigating a polluted waterway backed by wooden slum housing, in contrast to the high rise appartment buildings visible behind.

Fishermen on a small beach in Back Bay, a poor fishing community that stands in stark contrast to the office buildings of Nariman Point business district behind.

A woman sells mangos outside a showroom selling luxury cars, including BMW.

Away from the crowds and traffic of Luanda a new city is being built for Angola's wealthy - Luanda Sul (South Luanda).

An amputee begs amongst luxury cars on the streets of Luanda.

Children pick through rubbish dumped beside a Sonangol (Angolan state oil company) complex. Angola is now Africa's second largest producer of oil.

A mix of slum housing and high-rises in Angola's capital Luanda.

A shanty town on the outskirts of Luanda overlooks a Sonangol (the Angolan state oil company) complex. Angola is nowAfrica's second largest oil-producing nation.

An amputee begs on the streets of the Angolan capital Luanda.

Metal artist Titus Moteyane holds up his piece based on a British Airways Concorde plane in the Atteridgeville township.

The grounds of the Petionville Golf Club have become a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) housing at least 50,000 people after an earthquake hit the country. The clubhouse became quarters fo...

28 year old Demba Camara lost his older brother Mawdo when he drowned trying to travel illegally into Europe. He describes the motivation for Mawdo leaving by comparing his fence (on the left) with hi...

A tourist being approached for money along the Malecon.

Kibera slum, with the high-rise buildings of the city centre behind. Over 25 percent of Nairobi's population live in Kibera, an area that covers less than one percent of the city. Although the populat...

Haitian migrant workers build a luxurious apartment block in Santo Domingo.

The remains of a homeless camp in the shadow of Green Point Stadium. This area is used by a small group of homeless people to cook and socialise. The stadium is one of 10 stadia in South Africa that w...

Morning joggers pass Joseph Maarman as he scratches through rubbish bins in a Green Point neighbourhood. Maarman, who lives in the bushes next to the Green Point Stadium, sells items he finds to raise...

A view across Santa Marta favela and central Rio de Janeiro.

Homeless man on Nanjing Lu passing advertising for Apple Macintosh iPods.

The Ebutte Metta neighbourhood, where trees are milled for wood. Lagos Island, the commercial capital of the city, is in the background as is the Third Mainland Bridge.

A child from a workers slum colony that are building a new estate, walks home with a disused rubber tyre as a toy in Gurgaon.

A view over Santa Marta favela in Rio de Janeiro.

The Kibera slum, bordered by an exclusive golf course. Over 25 percent of Nairobi's population live in Kibera, an area that covers less than one percent of the city. Although the population of the slu...

A refugee shantytown next to citizens' housing in the port of Patras. Patras is home to about 3,000 illegal immigrants. Most of them are Afghans, although there are also some Iranians and Uzbeks. They...

The Ebutte Metta neighbourhood, where trees are milled for wood. Lagos Island, the commercial capital of the city, is in the background as is the Third Mainland Bridge.