Global poverty monitored by the World Bank for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is reported only at the … of urban poverty is the need for consistent definitions of urban areas and poverty. This note illustrates an innovative … approach to integrating globally consistent urban and poverty measurements to estimate urban poverty statistics that are …

and depth of poverty in urban areas of the South. The task is primarily descriptive, seeking to summarise what is already … known about these processes and to demarcate significant components of chronic urban poverty in the South. Due to the … disciplines, and city and neighbourhood studies. The discussion begins by considering what is chronic poverty, summarised and …