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2023
This chapter starts with corruption plots in the space of the slum, describing corruption talk swirling around slum evictions and resettlement that turns fundamentally on a charged critique of structural inequality. It talks about how hypocrisies abound in the cleansing of the urban poor from the city that typically entails “whitening” the real estate ...
Malini Ranganathan +2 more
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This chapter starts with corruption plots in the space of the slum, describing corruption talk swirling around slum evictions and resettlement that turns fundamentally on a charged critique of structural inequality. It talks about how hypocrisies abound in the cleansing of the urban poor from the city that typically entails “whitening” the real estate ...
Malini Ranganathan +2 more
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The Urbanisation of Slums in Belo Horizonte — Slums, Slums Profile
1998The slums are the result of the urban development and migration as well as many different kinds of social-economical and cultural conditions. Another point of the beginning of them in Belo Horizonte is the lack of districts for low class. These are a disorganised occupation without basic infrastructure in private areas and in areas of risks which were ...
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2023
Abstract Slum development interventions are often off-target, taking a “basic needs” welfare approach that has neither benefited the poor nor solved the problem of proliferating slums. This chapter uses political economy analysis to examine institutional and governance issues that play a central role in the development and persistence of
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Abstract Slum development interventions are often off-target, taking a “basic needs” welfare approach that has neither benefited the poor nor solved the problem of proliferating slums. This chapter uses political economy analysis to examine institutional and governance issues that play a central role in the development and persistence of
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Cities & Health, 2020
Among city inhabitants, the COVID-19 crisis is likely to have disproportionately damaging effects on slum dwellers compared to other urban residents, particularly those in low- and middle-income countries.
Tova Tampe
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Among city inhabitants, the COVID-19 crisis is likely to have disproportionately damaging effects on slum dwellers compared to other urban residents, particularly those in low- and middle-income countries.
Tova Tampe
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Global Health Promotion, 2020
Sub-Saharan Africa is the world’s least urbanized region but is ironically also the region with the largest proportion of urban slum dwellers. However, there exists limited understanding of the impact of slums on health in the region.
Dominic A. Alaazi, Gamel Aganah
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Sub-Saharan Africa is the world’s least urbanized region but is ironically also the region with the largest proportion of urban slum dwellers. However, there exists limited understanding of the impact of slums on health in the region.
Dominic A. Alaazi, Gamel Aganah
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Precarious gains: Social mobility and volatility in urban slums
, 2020Nearly one sixth of the global population lives in urban “slums” – areas characterized by inadequate infrastructure and tenure security. This figure continues to grow as developing countries rapidly urbanize.
E. Rains, A. Krishna
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Transfer learning approach to map urban slums using high and medium resolution satellite imagery
Habitat International, 2019Slums provide cheaper workforce and informal services which contribute substantially towards GDP. However, such areas, due to the high population density, sub-standard housing and lack of essential services are urban risks. The socio-physical development
Deepank Verma +2 more
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How Clients Select Brokers: Competition and Choice in India's Slums
American Political Science Review, 2018Conventional models of clientelism often assume poor voters have little or no choice over which local broker to turn to for help. Yet communities in many clientelistic settings are marked by multiple brokers who compete for a following.
A. Auerbach, Tariq Thachil
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The word slum was first coined in 1825 as a reference to the “back slums lying in the rear of Broad St” (OED). It did not take long for the term to acquire negative connotations, as seen in Leslie Stephen’s Playground of Europe (1871), wherein he describes “[t]he unspeakable ugliness of a back slum in London” (p. 176). By 1884 the word referred to both
S. Brooke Cameron, Ian M. Clark
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S. Brooke Cameron, Ian M. Clark
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