Today tourism is one of the most prevalent activities in cultural, economic, etc. sections. Tourism has many kinds. Slum tourism is of black tourisms that is popular in countries like India, Brazil, Kenya, etc. as a new kind of tourism that includes visiting slums and touching and feeling the...

This paper examines the socioeconomic impacts of regional rural urban migration of marginal segment in Rajshahi city corporation slum areas in Bangladesh. Key objective of this article is to examine the results of the first phase, i.e, the findings of the 2003-04 survey, compare with the recent...

Earlier this year I visited Dharavi in Mumbai, Asia's largest urban slum1. Pervasive economic and social disadvantage are endemic to any slum, a fact which leads inexorably to wider societal instability, representing a serious political challenge to those states in which they emerge. The...

How do slums shape the economic and health dynamics of pandemics? An event-study analysis using millions of mobile phones in Brazil shows that residents of overcrowded slums engaged in less social distancing after the outbreak of COVID-19. We develop and calibrate a choice-theoretic equilibrium...

State interventions against organized criminal groups (OCGs) sometimes work to improve security, but often exacerbate violence. To understand why, this article offers a theory about criminal governance in five types of criminal regimes—Insurgent, Bandit, Symbiotic, Predatory, and Split. These...

The concentration of urban violence in certain settlements in Latin America and the possibility of expansion have been latent concerns in slum upgrading. This intervention is potentially an urban peace strategy, especially when it is open to local participation and the promotion of capacities...