• Key issues
• Urban poverty
  • Urban poverty
  • In this guide
  • Housing
  • Basic services
  • Urban governance
  • Environment
• Subjective poverty
  • Subjective poverty
  • Dimensions of subjective poverty
  • Policy implications of using subjective poverty measures
  • Methods for measuring subjective poverty
• Growth and equity
  • Growth and equity
  • Growth: necessary and sufficient for poverty reduction
  • Looking beyond growth
  • Measuring equity in growth and human development

Key issues

Growth and equity

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This guide examines different perspectives on the three elements of the growth and equity debate: economic growth, equity and human development.

Subjective poverty

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Subjective poverty is an individual's assessment of his or her own welfare. It challenges the mainstream view of poverty and offers a wider and deeper understanding which incorporates the insight and voice of the poor themselves. This key issue guide provides some background information and suggests a number of useful further reading resources.

Urban poverty

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Unprecedented urbanisation was one of many transformations society underwent in the twentieth century.  On aggregate, urban dwellers now outnumber their rural counterparts, and with this change comes a unique set of challenges and obstacles to poverty reduction in urban environments. Dealt with effectively, however, urban growth could go from development problem to success story.