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Improving Donor Support for Urban Poverty Reduction

Banks, Nicola - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011

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....

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Poverty Incidence and Sectoral Growth: Evidence from Southeast Asia

Warr, Peter G. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2002

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The Face of Urban Poverty Explaining the Prevalence of Slums in Developing Countries

Arimah, C. Ben - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010

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...

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The Excluded Poor: How Targeting Has Left out the Poor in Peripheral Cities in the Philippines

Canares, Michael P. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010

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...

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Globalization and the Urban Poor

Perlman, Janice E. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2007

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?....

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Differences in Food Insecurity between Girls and Boys: Evidence from Zimbabwe

Gundersen, Craig; Kuku, Yemisi; Kelly, Thomas - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2007

reports of food insecurity in Zimbabwe. Previous studies have taken only the views of the household head into consideration in …

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Vulnerability, Poverty and Coping in Zimbabwe

Bird, Kate; Prowse, Martin - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2008

This paper uses five life histories from three locations in Zimbabwe?one peri-urban, one urban and one rural?to provide … Zimbabwe?s recent economic and political turmoil. Together the cases suggest that, similar to Hoddinott?s work on the … persistence of the 1993-94 rainfall shock in rural Zimbabwe, above and beyond increased mortality rates and morbidity levels …

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