Urban poverty
- Urban regeneration for fighting poverty
- N. Hamid; M. R. Villareal / Asian Development Bank Institute, 2001
- The present volume contains the proceedings of the third Asian Mayors’ Forum, which focused on the theme Fighting Urban Poverty and was held in Shanghai, People’s Republic of China, on 26-29 June 2000. The individual contrib...
- Poverty and income inequality in Burkina Faso
- H. Fofack; C. Monga; H. Tuluy / World Bank, 2001
- This paper investigates the dynamics of poverty and income inequality in a cross-section of socioeconomic groups and geographical regions. The study takes place over the five years growth period which followed the 1994 CFA Franc deval...
- How long will it be before most of the poor live in urban areas?
- M. Ravallion / World Bank, 2001
- Is the urban share of poverty also likely to grow? There is evidence that it has been doing so. Will the poor urbanise faster than the nonpoor? How long will it be before most of the poor live in urban areas? Conditions are ide...
- Identifying some of the causes of household poverty in Tunisia
- S. Ghazouani; M. Goaied / Workshop on the Analysis of Poverty and its Determinants in the MENA Region, 2001
- This paper explores a range of policy concerns relating to the determinants of poverty in Tunisia on the basis of the household budget survey carried out in 1990 by the Institute of National statistics. Objectives of the paper are to ...
- The Urban Labour Market During Structural Adjustment: Ethiopia 1990-1997
- P. Krishnan; Tesfaye Gebre Selassie; S. Dercon / Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1998
- Paper examines the effects of reform and structural adjustment on the urban labour market in Ethiopia using a combination of cross-section and panel data based on surveys conducted both pre- and post- reform. During this period Ethiop...
- Gender and urban social movements: women's community responses to restructuring and urban poverty
- A. Lind; M. Farmelo / United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 1996
- Urban poverty is increasing in the wake of neoliberal restructuring in both North and South, and much of the responsibility for providing basic welfare services is simultaneously being shifted from public to private hands. This paper ...
- Healthy cities, healthy children
- L. Duhl; T. Hancock / The Progress of Nations Report, UNICEF, 1999
- Economic development has brought comfort and convenience to many people in the industrialized world, but in its wake are pollution, new health problems, blighted urban landscapes and social isolation. Growing numbers of the dispossess...
- Identifying some of the causes of household poverty in Tunisia
- S. Ghazouani; M. Goaied / Workshop on the Analysis of Poverty and its Determinants in the MENA Region, 2001
- This paper explores a range of policy concerns relating to the determinants of poverty in Tunisia on the basis of the household budget survey carried out in 1990 by the Institute of National statistics. Objectives of the paper are to ...
- The Urban Labour Market During Structural Adjustment: Ethiopia 1990-1997
- P. Krishnan; Tesfaye Gebre Selassie; S. Dercon / Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1998
- Paper examines the effects of reform and structural adjustment on the urban labour market in Ethiopia using a combination of cross-section and panel data based on surveys conducted both pre- and post- reform. During this period Ethiop...
- Gender and urban social movements: women's community responses to restructuring and urban poverty
- A. Lind; M. Farmelo / United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 1996
- Urban poverty is increasing in the wake of neoliberal restructuring in both North and South, and much of the responsibility for providing basic welfare services is simultaneously being shifted from public to private hands. This paper ...
- Healthy cities, healthy children
- L. Duhl; T. Hancock / The Progress of Nations Report, UNICEF, 1999
- Economic development has brought comfort and convenience to many people in the industrialized world, but in its wake are pollution, new health problems, blighted urban landscapes and social isolation. Growing numbers of the dispossess...
- Global Metropolitan Studies at the Institute of Urban & Regional Development, UC Berkeley
- The 21st century will be an urban century with more people around the world residing in metropolitan regions than in any other form of human settlement. This urbanization is taking place in both the global North and the global South. Its implications are widespread: from environmental challenges to entrenched patterns of segregation to new configurations of politics and social movements. The Globa...
- Instituto Javeriano de Vivienda y Urbanismo (The Institute for Housing and Urbanism), Colombia (INVAJIU)
- Colombian research institute working on problems of housing and urban poverty
- SHARAN
- Drug use and treatment in marginalised communities
