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Cultures of unemployment : a comparative look at long-term unemployment and urban poverty
Engbersen, Godfried (ed.) - 1993
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Development, poverty and energy, in the 21st century
Kozulj, Roberto - In: Modern economy 2 (2011) 4, pp. 483-497
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The culture of poverty
Lewis, Oscar - In: Development and underdevelopment : the political …, (pp. 249-257). 2003
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The age of extremes : concentrated affluence and poverty in the twenty-first century
Massey, Douglas S. - In: Demography : a publication of the Population … 33 (1996) 4, pp. 395-412
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From Income to Urban Contest in Global Settings : Chronic Poverty in Bangalore
Benjamin, Solomon Ameh - 2014
Most Indian cities and particularly the metros are usually characterized by vibrant and complex economies. What does being poor and chronically poor mean within these settings? The MDGs state the need to halve the world's poor. Can one go beyond what is useful rhetoric to spur action and define...
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Global Experiences on Expanding Services to the Urban Poor
World Bank Group - 2009
In 2006-07, the Water and Sanitation Program-South Asia (WSP-SA) initiated a research toidentify barriers to service delivery for the urban poor. The research included a review ofvarious initiatives from across the globe that have resulted in improved service delivery for theurban poor and...
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Estimating Urban Poverty Consistently Across Countries
Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Nakamura, Shohei; Roberts, Mark; … - 2022
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 …
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The Economic and Social Processes Influencing the Level and Nature of Chronic Poverty in Urban Areas
Mitlin, Diana - 2014
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 …
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Urban governance of disease
Katz, Rebecca; Mookherji, Sangeeta; Kaminski, Morgan; … - In: Administrative Sciences : open access journal 2 (2012) 2, pp. 135-147
Rapid population growth, urbanization, and the growing challenges faced by the urban poor require redefining the paradigm for public health interventions in the 21st century, creating new approaches that take urban determinants of health into consideration. The widening disparity between the...
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