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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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2021
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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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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Environment and Urbanization, 1995
This paper explores three issues. First it examines how, and by whom, poverty has been defined and measured, contrasting conventional economic and participatory anthropological approaches. Second, it questions the extent to which “urban poverty” differs conceptually from poverty in general, and considers the utility of an analysis of the urban–rural ...
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This paper explores three issues. First it examines how, and by whom, poverty has been defined and measured, contrasting conventional economic and participatory anthropological approaches. Second, it questions the extent to which “urban poverty” differs conceptually from poverty in general, and considers the utility of an analysis of the urban–rural ...
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Urban Poverty and Anti-poverty Policy
2018The 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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Journal of Developing Societies, 2007
This article draws on a longitudinal study of a poor neighborhood in Lima, Peru, to question received wisdom concerning the intergenerational transmission of poverty. The research follows a sample of 56 families over nearly 30 years. It focuses on the efforts of parents to launch their children on what they hope will be different and superior life ...
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This article draws on a longitudinal study of a poor neighborhood in Lima, Peru, to question received wisdom concerning the intergenerational transmission of poverty. The research follows a sample of 56 families over nearly 30 years. It focuses on the efforts of parents to launch their children on what they hope will be different and superior life ...
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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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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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Why Poor People Stay Poor: Urban Bias in Development. Michael Lipton. Temple Smith, London. 1977. British price £9.50.
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2020
In urban contexts internationally, organizations, administrators, culture workers, artists and academics put vast effort into facilitating music and other arts in attempt to alleviate “poverty.” Poverty, according to recent definitions, refers to a broad array of social deprivations.
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In urban contexts internationally, organizations, administrators, culture workers, artists and academics put vast effort into facilitating music and other arts in attempt to alleviate “poverty.” Poverty, according to recent definitions, refers to a broad array of social deprivations.
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Social Policy, Poverty and Urban Poverty
2020Sosyal 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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