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Infrastructure and poverty reduction : implications for urban development in Nigeria

Ogun, T. P. - 2010

The paper investigates the impact of infrastructural development on poverty reduction in Nigeria. Specifically, the relative effects of physical and social infrastructure on living standards or poverty indicators are examined, with a view to providing empirical evidence on the implications of...

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Urban development transitions and their implications for poverty reduction and policy planning in Uganda

Mukwaya, Paul Isolo; Sengendo, Hannington; Lwasa, Shuaib - 2010

of urbanization in Uganda and what this means for urban policy planning and poverty reduction in the country. Although … the history of urbanization in Uganda is relatively young compared to other East African countries, the rate of urban … development path of Uganda can be classified into five phases, referred to in this paper as transitions, and these are …

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Irregular urbanization as a catalyst for radical social mobilization : the case of the housing movements of São Paulo

Earle, Lucy - 2011

This study focuses on the city of São Paulo, Brazil and examines the ways in which irregular and illegal growth have influenced the collective action of social movements of the urban poor. The study describes how São Paulo grew as a socially segregated city during the twentieth century due to...

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Improving donor support for urban poverty reduction

Banks, Nicola - 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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Estimates of multidimensional poverty for India using NSSO-71 and -75

Mothkoor, Venugopal; Badgaiyan, Nina - 2021

We measure multidimensional poverty in India using National Sample Survey Organization data from 2014-15 to 2017-18. We use income, health, education, and standard of living to measure the MPI. The MPI headcount declined from 26.9 to 13.75 per cent over the study period. The all-India estimates...

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The face of urban poverty : explaining the prevalence of slums in developing countries

Arimah, Ben C. - 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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Parsing the urban poverty puzzle : a multi-generational panel study in Rio de Janeiro's favelas, 1968 - 2008

Perlman, Janice E. - 2010

This paper describes the methodology of a longitudinal multi-generational study in the favelas (shantytowns) of Rio de Janeiro from 1968 to 2008. Major political transformations took place in Brazil during this interval: from dictatorship to 'opening' to democracy; major economic transformations...

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The excluded poor : how targeting has left out the poor in peripheral cities in the Philippines

Canares, Michael P. - 2010

Constrained by resource limitations and challenged by the increasing incidence of poverty in the country, the Philippine government embarked on an anti-poverty programme that sought to identify where the poorest people were, what were their specific needs, and how government and other...

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Structural poverty dynamics in urban South Africa : a mixed-methods investigation

Schotte, Simone - 2019

This paper examines the extent and determinants of structural poverty dynamics in South Africa, focusing on the socio economically disadvantaged urban African population. The quantitative analysis using panel data is triangulated with evidence from a qualitative case study integrating focus...

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Globalizing Shanghai : international migration and the global city

Shen, Wei - 2010

Cities are the focal point for the mobility of talents, located between the nations and firms, states and educational institutions. Shanghai, being regarded as the 'ultimate poster-child for the effects of globalization on cities and regions' by the BBC (2007), the city is argued as the best...

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