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  The urban advantage: is Kenya making progress towards improving the lives of the urban poor? Perspectives: ten years after the year 2000 Nairobi cross-sectional slum survey

  African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2012

  The poor standard of living in many cities of the developing world has led researchers to question the so-called ‘urban advantage’, which assumes that urban dwellers fare better than their rural counterparts in terms of economic and health conditions.
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  Provision and improvement of housing for the poor

  Evidence on Demand, 2013

  The purpose of the Topic Guide is to stimulate thinking about the ways in which investment in the process of housing can benefit the poor.
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  Access to urban basic services and determinants of satisfaction: a comparison by non-slum and slum dwellers in Dhaka City

  The Institute of Governance Studies, 2013

  Dhaka has experienced rapid urbanisation in recent decades. However, the city’s infrastructure and basic utility service provisions lag behind its physical expansion making it one of the least livable cities in the world. The government of Bangladesh provides various utility services, water, electricity, waste collection, among others, to urban dwellers.
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  Assessment of a possible post-MDG Urban Transport Indicator

  Evidence on Demand, 2013

  Evidence on Demand was requested to support DFID in work on what the post MDG framework might look like. This brief report was prepared to consider the data availability and measurability of indicators for a proposed target to halve the number of people without ready access to urban transport services, and the cost of achieving such a target.
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  Linkages between population dynamics, urbanization processes and disaster risks: a regional vision of Latin America

  International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR), 2012

  With both urban population and the frequency of disasters increasing in Latin America, it is necessary to adequately plan for sustainable growth that takes these changing dynamics into account.
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  A Socio-economic Study of Informal Sector Workers of Dhaka City

  Bangladesh Online Research Network, 2012

  Informal sector is a very important area of the economy for any developing country; it is a growing occupational sector for the less skilled people, living both in urban and rural areas. Considerable amount of employment are ensured by this sector. What is specific to the informal economy is the absence of rights and social protection of the workers involved in it.
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  Sustainable livelihoods approaches: past, present and...future?

  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?
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  Policy planning and implementation overview: rural-urban linkages

  Overseas Development Institute, 2002

  This key briefing paper in the DFID series is concerned with the changing relationship between the rural and the urban and its implications for policy makers. Its clear format provides a concise overview of key issues in decision making on policy.
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  Unjust waters: climate change, flooding and the protection of poor urban communities: experiences from six African cities

  ActionAid International, 2007

  Six years ago, at the UN Millennium Summit, world leaders set a specific target for realising the right to adequate housing and ‘continuous improvement of living conditions’. However, in Africa climate change is already threatening that goal, causing massive rural-urban migration and bringing chronic flooding to the cities.
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  How does poverty affect migration choice?: a review of literature

  Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2003

  This paper takes a sustainable livelihoods approach to understanding the relationship between migration and poverty, and it explores the effects of poverty on people’s decision and ability to migrate.A livelihood approach to poverty and migration emphasises that: whilst migration does occur in response to crisis for some, it is also a central livelihood strategy for many people in the face of p

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