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    Baseline survey of the 21 ISRDP and URP nodes

    Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2006
    This report is the third in a sequence that gives qualitative and quantitative data from socio-economic and demographic baseline studies in 21 South African areas (nodes) making up the Integrated Sustainable Rural Development Programme (ISRDP) and Urban Renewal Programme (URP).
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    Fighting poverty in an urban world: support to urban development

    Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2006
    Urban areas are engines of economic, scientific and cultural development and often foster democratic movements. The urban economy is crucial for national economic development.
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    Humanitarian action in urban contexts

    Humanitarian Practice Network, ODI, 2006
    This edition of Humanitarian Exchange includes various articles by different authors discussing humanitarian action in urban contexts and a range of general policy and practice articles.The contributors explore issues relating to natural disasters in urban contexts, with articles on responding to Tropical Storm Jean in Haiti, the relationship between climate change and disaster risk in urban en
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    Migration, employment status and poverty: an analysis across urban centres

    Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2007
    This paper analyses the pattern of migration in India's urban areas and its socio-economic correlates.
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    Angola: lives in Ruins - forced evictions continue

    Amnesty International, 2007
    This report documents the intensification of large-scale forced evictions in the Angolan capital, Luanda, and examines what steps have been taken by the authorities to implement the recommendations made by Amnesty International in 2003.The report details cases of forced eviction since January 2004.
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    In the city, out of place: environment and modernity, Delhi 1860s to 1960s

    Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2006
    This essay explores urban development and the environmental agenda in Delhi. It is suggested that "environment" is a fluid concept, linking cultures, populations, materials and spaces in specific ways in particular historical contexts.The author considers the nature of colonial urbanism in Delhi and ensuing period of nationalist planning.
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    HiFi news at the World Urban Forum

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2006
    This newsletter from the IIED brings together the experience of groups working with savings and loans for shelter investments in the developing world. This edition focuses on issues raised at the World Urban Forum 2006.The focus of the newsletter is the changes that have taken place within microfinance agencies, and their increasing support for shelter projects.
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    Toward synergistic rural-urban development: the experience of the Rural Urban Partnership Programme (RUPP) in Nepal

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2006
    Using a case study from Nepal where conscious efforts have been made to improve linkages between rural and urban areas through the Rural Urban Partnership Programme, RUPP, this paper suggests a general framework for rural-urban development.
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    Reducing urban violence in developing countries

    Brookings Institution, 2006
    This brief presents an integrated framework for understanding urban violence. It is informed by the findings from participatory urban appraisals of violence undertaken in 18 poor urban communities in Colombia and Guatemala.The paper argues that evidence from Latin America challenges the popular stereotype that poverty is the main cause of violence.
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    Building homes, changing official approaches: the work of urban poor organizations and their federations and their contributions to meeting the Millennium Development Goals in urban areas

    Human Settlements Programme, 2006
    This paper discusses the current and potential role of community-driven initiatives to significantly improve the lives of slum dwellers and squatters at local, city and national levels.

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