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Climate change, disaster risk, and the urban poor : cities building resilience for a changing world

Baker, Judy L. (contributor) - 2012

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Integrated urban upgrading for the poor : the experience of Ribeira Azul, Brazil

Baker, Judy L. - 2006

"This study looks at the experience of integrated urban upgrading in a low-income neighborhood of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Infrastructure and social investments have been made in the community through a government program, with community participation playing a major role in the design and...

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Albania - Urban Growth, Migration and Poverty Reduction : A Poverty Assessment

World Bank - 2012

This sector report claims that in the three years between 2002 and 2005 alone, almost 235,000 people have moved out of poverty in Albania. Strong economic growth and large inflow of remittances are at the center of this impressive achievement. However, low productivity of predominantly small...

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Mexico - Income Generation and Social Protection for the Poor : Volume 2. Urban Poverty in Mexico

World Bank - 2012

Half of the moderately poor, and one third of the extremely poor now live in urban areas in Mexico. While cities offer a number of opportunities and specific challenges for the poor, low quality and high costs restrict real access to basic public services. Yet, the urban-rural distinctions need...

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Harnessing Urbanization to End Poverty and Boost Prosperity in Africa

World Bank - 2014

Urbanization is the single most important transformation that the African continent will undergo this century. More than half of Africa's population will live in its cities by 2040. In the face of rapid urbanization, there is a narrow window of opportunity to harness the potential of cities as...

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Attacking Brazil's Poverty : A Poverty Report with a Focus on Urban Poverty Reduction Policies, Volume 1. Summary Report

World Bank - 2013

The first central message of this report is that Brazil has over the last years achieved great progress in its social policies and indicators. The second central message is that poverty remains unacceptably high for a country with Brazil's average income levels. The worst remaining income...

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Brazil - Attacking Brazil's Poverty : A Poverty Report with a Focus on Urban Poverty Reduction Policies (Vol. 2 of 2) - Main Report

World Bank - 2013

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Toward an understanding of household vulnerability in rural Kenya

Subbarao, K. - 2004

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Kenya - Poverty and Inequality Assessment : Executive Summary and Synthesis Report

World Bank - 2012

This assessment of poverty and inequality comes at an important juncture for Kenya. The December 2007 elections and … in Kenya as well as designing policies to minimize the impact of the current global crisis. …

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Assessing Poverty in Kenya

World Bank - 2012

About half of Kenya's rural population (approximately 9 million people) was the poverty line in 1992, a proportion … poverty line. In the early 1980s, Kenya's social indicators were distinctly more favorable than those of most countries in the … differences between rural and urban areas and between the poor and the non-poor. These are the findings of the Kenya poverty …

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