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Annual Review of Sociology, 1985
This chapter is a state of the art review of the research and theoretical writing on urban poverty. We reveal that there has been an ebb and flow in the study of urban poverty in America. The social reform movement of early twentieth century, responding to the dislocation that accompanied rapid industrialization, prompted a number of descriptive and ...
William Julius Wilson, Robert Aponte
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This chapter is a state of the art review of the research and theoretical writing on urban poverty. We reveal that there has been an ebb and flow in the study of urban poverty in America. The social reform movement of early twentieth century, responding to the dislocation that accompanied rapid industrialization, prompted a number of descriptive and ...
William Julius Wilson, Robert Aponte
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Urban Poverty: Effects on Prenatal Nutrition
Science, 1969Infants of poor (as measured by an index) mothers were 15 percent smaller than infants of nonpoor mothers. Infants from poor families had multiple anatomic evidences of prenatal undernutrition.
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On the urbanization of poverty [PDF]
Journal of Development Economics, 2002 The author identifies conditions under which the urban sector's share of the poor population in a developing country will be a strictly increasing and strictly convex function of its share of the total population. Cross-sectional data afor 39 countries and time-series data for for India are consistent with the expected theoretical relationship.
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Urban poverty and urban poverty alleviation
Cities, 1989Abstract Very poor people are likely to be found in greater numbers in cities than in rural areas by the end of the century. This article argues that casually employed wage workers are those who are likely to be most vulnerable, and that programmes including education and health care are needed to reduce their vulnerability. Whereas the encouragement
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2020
Urban Fuel Poverty describes key approaches to defining and alleviating fuel poverty in cities using a multidisciplinary perspective and multiple case studies. It provides empirical knowledge on the levels and intensities of energy poverty in urban areas, along with new theoretical perspectives in conceptualizing the multidimensionality of energy ...
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Urban Fuel Poverty describes key approaches to defining and alleviating fuel poverty in cities using a multidisciplinary perspective and multiple case studies. It provides empirical knowledge on the levels and intensities of energy poverty in urban areas, along with new theoretical perspectives in conceptualizing the multidimensionality of energy ...
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2020
Eradicating poverty in all its forms remains one of the greatest challenges facing humanity. For this reason, it was the primary sustainable development goal set for the United Nations Development Programme. While the number of people living in extreme poverty dropped by more than half between 1990 and 2015, too many are still struggling to meet the ...
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Eradicating poverty in all its forms remains one of the greatest challenges facing humanity. For this reason, it was the primary sustainable development goal set for the United Nations Development Programme. While the number of people living in extreme poverty dropped by more than half between 1990 and 2015, too many are still struggling to meet the ...
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Urban poverty reduction: learning by doing in Asia
Environment and Urbanization, 2012This paper describes the Asian Coalition for Community Action (ACCA) programme that was initiated by the Asian Coalition for Housing Rights (ACHR) in 2009. ACCA seeks to catalyze and support community initiatives, citywide upgrading and partnerships between community organizations and local governments.
Boonyabancha, Somsook, Mitlin, Diana
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Urbanization and Urban Poverty in Bangladesh
2020Urbanization and urban poverty have close linkage as the former creates the latter. The hasty urbanization in Bangladesh over the last 20 years has accelerated the growth of urban poverty in major cities. Therefore, this chapter presents a discussion on the intensity and extent of urbanization in Bangladesh from a historical perspective.
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Causes of urban poverty in Brazil
World Development, 1978Abstract This paper discusses the problem of urban poverty, its relation to employment, and rising spatial inequalities in a fast-growing economy. Absolute poverty in medium-sized cities and metropolitan areas is related to explanatory factors such as internal migration, as well as the productive structure of the city and its functional position in ...
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