The growing urbanization of poverty poses a significant challenge to governments and donors alike, particularly in Asia, which houses 60 per cent of the world.s slum dwellers. Donors have been slow to respond to the urban challenge, however, both in their funding patterns and their priorities....

The focus of this paper is the effect of contemporary globalization on poverty and inequality in cities of the ?global south?. Specifically it addresses the impact of globalization on marginalized communities?slums, squatter settlements and shantytowns?collectively called ?informal settlements?....

Constrained by resource limitations and challenged by the increasing incidence ofpoverty in the country, the Philippine government embarked on an anti-povertyprogramme that sought to identify where the poorest people were, what were theirspecific needs, and how government and other stakeholders...

One of the most visible and enduring manifestations of urban poverty in developing countries is the formation and proliferation of slums. While attention has focused on the rapid pace of urbanization as the sole or major factor explaining the proliferation of slums and squatter settlements in...

The foreign aid landscape has undergone a paradigm shift in the last few decades, with changes in the behaviour of .traditional. donors and a new focus on selectivity in aid disbursement, as well as .new. donors and South-South co-operation playing an inc

Agriculture is a main contributor to pro-poor growth in Africa, but gender inequalities in the sector hold back agricultural growth and affect household welfare negatively. The sector has been characterized by a lack of gender-disaggregated data and patch

This paper explores the relationship between microcredit and poverty reduction. To investigate this question, we posit a bare-bone, household model that outlines the economic environment within which various types of family microenterprises operate. It hi

A cash transfer programme .Livelihood Empowerment against Poverty. has been implemented with the aim of addressing poverty and vulnerability in Ghana. This study looks at the impact of this conditional cash transfer programme on households. supply of labo