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The ecology of urban poverty

Cities, 1990
Abstract Environmental degradation and widespread poverty in cities of the developing world are becoming closely intertwined in particular geographic areas with vulnerable environmental conditions. Nearly 130 million of the ‘hungry poor’ populations live in or around the core of cities.
H.Jeffrey Leonard, Patti Petesch
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Eviction and the Reproduction of Urban Poverty

American Journal of Sociology, 2012
Combining statistical and ethnographic analyses, this article explores the prevalence and ramifications of eviction in the lives of the urban poor. A quantitative analysis of administrative and survey data finds that eviction is commonplace in inner-city black neighborhoods and that women from those neighborhoods are evicted at significantly higher ...
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Urban Poverty and Anti-poverty Policy

2018
The increasingly serious problem of urban poverty is becoming an important social problem affecting stable economic and social development. To solve this problem, since the beginning of the 1990s, the Chinese government has formulated and promulgated a series of urban pro-poor policies and initially established an urban anti-poverty action system. Many
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Prices and Poverty in Urban Ethiopia

2005
Poverty is an ongoing issue in Ethiopia. The identification of policy options to address the problem primarily requires that poverty be measured accurately. One of the most important ingredients in the measurement of poverty are prices. The magnitude of poverty is affected by how cost of living differences across time and regions are adjusted.
Gebremedhin, Tesfaye, Whelan, Stephen
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Crisis, Urbanization, and Urban Poverty in Tanzania: A Study of Urban Poverty and Survival Politics

The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 1996
Karen Coen Flynn, Joe Lugalla
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Poverty and Urban Bias

The Round Table, 1977
Why Poor People Stay Poor: Urban Bias in Development. Michael Lipton. Temple Smith, London. 1977. British price £9.50.
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Urban poverty in the global south

2012
One in seven of the world’s population live in poverty in urban areas, and the vast majority of these live in the Global South – mostly in overcrowded informal settlements with inadequate water, sanitation, health care and schools provision. This book explains how and why the scale and depth of urban poverty is so frequently under-estimated by ...
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URBAN POVERTY

Journal of the American Institute of Planners, 1965
Janet S. Reiner, Thomas A. Reiner
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Social Policy, Poverty and Urban Poverty

2020
Sosyal politikanın en tartışmalı alanlarından biri yoksulluktur. Yoksulluğun sosyal politika alanında ele alınışı ve akademik bulgular, yoksulluğun uzun bir süre daha sosyal politikanın önemli bir sorun alanı olacağını göstermektedir. Sosyal devlet, refah devleti ve liberalizmin yeni yaklaşımları arasında tartışmalar sürerken küreselleşme ile özellikle
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Urban–rural Integration and Poverty: Different Roles of Urban–rural Integration in Reducing Rural and Urban Poverty in China

Social Indicators Research, 2022
Hengzhou Xu, Xu Hengzhou
exaly