Housing
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- Afghanistan's informal settlements: a prescription for livelihood insecurity and poverty
- ( S. Schutte;B. Bauer / Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit , 2007)
- Informal settlements have proliferated in Afghan cities as a result of conflict and drought. The fall of the Taliban in 2001 increased the spread of urbanisation due to returning refugees seeking empl...
- Stiffled housing market leads to growth of slums in Africa
- ( K. Boudreaux / Mercatus Center, George Mason University , 2008)
- As Africa’s slums expand, international organisations, NGOs, and governments themselves call for strong public-sector action to deal with the problems in these settlements and to limit their exp...
- Assessing gender and urbanisation
- ( Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions , 2008)
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Countries throughout the world are rapidly urbanising, particularly in the developing world, and for the first time in human history, the majority of people today are no longer living in rural area...
- Housing woes of urban poor in Bangladesh
- ( I Ahmed / Asian Coalition for Housing Rights, Thailand , 2007)
- Housing is a serious problem for the urban poor in Bangladesh. In the capital city of Dhaka alone nearly 30 per cent of the population live in informal settlements. Tenure insecurity is a dominant cha...
- Urban land for South Africa’s poor
- ( W. Smit / Southern African Regional Poverty Network , 2007)
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Why do poor South Africans have a hard time accessing urban land? This report analyses the perspectives and experiences of civil society organisations (CSOs) whose aims are to increase the poor&rsq...
- Time to articulate the right to water?
- ( P.B. Anand / id21 Development Research Reporting Service , 2007)
- Target ten of Millennium Development Goals (MDG) seeks to halve the proportion of people without sustainable and safe access to water. Although attempts have been made to link the MDGs and human right...
- Addressing the needs of the Dhaka's urban poor
- ( World Bank Office, Dhaka , 2007)
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Dhaka is the fastest growing mega-city in the world, attracting an estimated 300,000 to 400,000 mostly poor migrants a year. This paper argues that urgent measures are required to address the vital...
- Private partnerships for socially and environmentally sustainable urban development
- ( United Nations Human Settlements Programme , 2007)
- 2007 marks the beginning of a new urban era - for the first time, half of humanity will be living in towns and cities. This report provides an overview of the challenges, business opportunities and be...
- Will financing the urban poor supply them with shelter and basic services?
- ( R. Rollnick / United Nations Human Settlements Programme , 2007)
- In Africa, Asia and Latin America the demand for shelter and basic services far outstrips supply, particularly in urban slums. This issue of Habitat Debate examines whether increasing access to financ...
- How pro-poor is Maharashtra's draft housing policy?
- ( M. Patkar; S. Singh / Economic and Political Weekly, India , 2007)
- This brief article examines the draft housing policy of Maharashtra in India. The draft acknowledges that shelter is a basic human need and that it implies not only construction of bricks and mortar b...
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