As developing countries rapidly urbanize, the number of people living in 'slums'-neighbourhoods lacking property rights … social mobility in today's urban slums in order to assess prospects for upward mobility in cities of the Global South …. Finding evidence for limited levels of upward mobility and high levels of volatility, we discuss the substantial public sector …

Slums are central to the global debate on inequality, serving as entry points for people moving to cities in search of … economic opportunity. Yet we know little about the extent of intergenerational mobility in slums due to a lack of data tracking … families across generations (including family members who no longer live together), as well as a lack of data covering slums …