Urban poverty
- How can sustainable livelihoods approaches be more successfully applied to future development challenges?
- S. Turrall (ed) / Knowledge Services, IDS, 2011
- How are Sustainable Livelihoods Approaches (SLAs) relevant to current and future development challenges? What has been learnt from the experience of using SLAs to date? This Sustainable Livelihoods Highlights Brief looks at a series o...
- Improving poverty reduction strategy in Mozambique
- M. Paulo; C. Rosário; I. Tvedten / Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2011
- According to the World Bank (2010), 70 per cent of the urban population of Mozambique still live in settlements. This report contributes in monitoring and evaluating Mozambique’s Poverty Reduction Strategy (PARPA II), focusing o...
- Welfare inequality in Malawi
- M.M. Matita; E.W. Chirwa / Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2009
- The relationship between urban and rural sectors in many developing countries is characterized by an economic dualism – the coexistence of a modern urban sector and a traditional rural sector. This dualism has facilitated the is...
- Perspectives on the human rights of the elderly in India
- Agewell Foundation, 2011
- The population of India has approximately tripled during the last 50 years, but the number of elderly Indians has increased more than fourfold. Better medical facilities, care and liberal family planning policies made the elderl...
- Voices of the poor should be included in budgetary processes
- F. Khatun; T.I. Khan; A. Nabi / Bangladesh Online Research Network, 2011
- This dialogue report provides a view of poverty in Bangladesh. The country has been performing well from the growth perspective in the recent past as GDP growth rate has been on average of 5.8% per year during 2000-2010. T...
- Engineers respond to population increases with a set of Engineering Development Goals
- T. Fox (ed) / Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 2011
- Energy, food, water, urbanisation and finance are areas significantly affected by the effects of population growth. How can the engineering profession respond to key challenges in order to ensure the provision of food, water, shelter ...
- The importance of mixed-nighboured housing projects in South Africa
- S. Muyeba; J. Seekings / Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2010
- This paper examines South African communities who live in racially-integrated residential neighbourhoods. The paper illustrates that members of these communities consist of low-income coloured and African citizens, living in sta...
- What do Mozambicans think about their personal and national economic trends?
- C. Shenga / Afrobarometer, 2010
- This brief paper seeks to examine how ordinary Mozambicans experience economic trends, in view of the bright official growth and inflation rates. For this purpose, the paper uses the findings of Afrobarometer public opinion surveys fr...
- The informal settlements in Eastern Cape: the connection between livelihood strategies and sustainable human settlements
- S. Rule; M. Rubin; L. Ntema; U. Pillay / Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa, 2010
- This study investigates the history and nature of the informal settlements or backyard shacks in Eastern Cape, South Africa. It deals with the economic activities, income and tenancy profile of backyard shack residents. Furthermore, i...
- South African housing projects: more “mixed neighbourhoods” will not result in undesirable social outcomes
- J. Seekings; T. Jooste; S. Muyeba / Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2010
- This report states that the adoption of different procedures for allocating new housing in South Africa would result in neighbourhoods that are more diverse in terms of race and other characteristics. Yet, the paper seeks to investiga...
- Improving poverty reduction strategy in Mozambique
- M. Paulo; C. Rosário; I. Tvedten / Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2011
- According to the World Bank (2010), 70 per cent of the urban population of Mozambique still live in settlements. This report contributes in monitoring and evaluating Mozambique’s Poverty Reduction Strategy (PARPA II), focusing o...
- Welfare inequality in Malawi
- M.M. Matita; E.W. Chirwa / Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2009
- The relationship between urban and rural sectors in many developing countries is characterized by an economic dualism – the coexistence of a modern urban sector and a traditional rural sector. This dualism has facilitated the is...
- Perspectives on the human rights of the elderly in India
- Agewell Foundation, 2011
- The population of India has approximately tripled during the last 50 years, but the number of elderly Indians has increased more than fourfold. Better medical facilities, care and liberal family planning policies made the elderl...
- Voices of the poor should be included in budgetary processes
- F. Khatun; T.I. Khan; A. Nabi / Bangladesh Online Research Network, 2011
- This dialogue report provides a view of poverty in Bangladesh. The country has been performing well from the growth perspective in the recent past as GDP growth rate has been on average of 5.8% per year during 2000-2010. T...
- Engineers respond to population increases with a set of Engineering Development Goals
- T. Fox (ed) / Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 2011
- Energy, food, water, urbanisation and finance are areas significantly affected by the effects of population growth. How can the engineering profession respond to key challenges in order to ensure the provision of food, water, shelter ...
- The importance of mixed-nighboured housing projects in South Africa
- S. Muyeba; J. Seekings / Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2010
- This paper examines South African communities who live in racially-integrated residential neighbourhoods. The paper illustrates that members of these communities consist of low-income coloured and African citizens, living in sta...
- What do Mozambicans think about their personal and national economic trends?
- C. Shenga / Afrobarometer, 2010
- This brief paper seeks to examine how ordinary Mozambicans experience economic trends, in view of the bright official growth and inflation rates. For this purpose, the paper uses the findings of Afrobarometer public opinion surveys fr...
- The informal settlements in Eastern Cape: the connection between livelihood strategies and sustainable human settlements
- S. Rule; M. Rubin; L. Ntema; U. Pillay / Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa, 2010
- This study investigates the history and nature of the informal settlements or backyard shacks in Eastern Cape, South Africa. It deals with the economic activities, income and tenancy profile of backyard shack residents. Furthermore, i...
- South African housing projects: more “mixed neighbourhoods” will not result in undesirable social outcomes
- J. Seekings; T. Jooste; S. Muyeba / Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2010
- This report states that the adoption of different procedures for allocating new housing in South Africa would result in neighbourhoods that are more diverse in terms of race and other characteristics. Yet, the paper seeks to investiga...
- Continued marginalisation of informal workers in Malawi
- R.I.C. Tambulasi; H.M. Kayuni / Poverty Frontiers, 2007
- Malawi has a huge informal sector due to high levels of unemployement. One of the ways people earn income in this sector is minibus-calling. This considerably reduces the vulnerability of many who would otherwise be excluded economica...
- 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
