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Urban Poverty: Reconsidering its Scale and Nature
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In this paper, the authors highlight the ways in which the scale and severity of urban poverty has been under-estimated and suggest that too little attention has been given to addressing the health burden associated with poverty.Abstract:
This paper seeks to highlight the ways in which the scale and severity of urban poverty has been under-estimated--but it is not seeking to make judgements about the relative scale or depth of `urban poverty in comparison to `rural poverty. Thus any implicit or explicit recommendations within the paper that governments and development assistance agencies should give more attention to poverty reduction in urban areas should not be taken as a recommendation that attention be shifted from rural to urban poverty. Where comparisons are made between rural and urban poverty or the ways that rural and urban poverty are understood it is to highlight how the understanding or measurement of poverty in urban areas has failed to take due note of costs or of forms of deprivation that are evident in some (or most) urban areas. This is also not intended as a demand that attention be shifted from rural to urban poverty. Its suggestion that too little attention has been given to addressing the health burden associated with `poverty probably has as much if not more relevance for rural populations as for urban populations. (authors)read more
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Editorial Introduction: Vulnerability, Coping and Policy
TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that vulnerability, more than poverty, is linked with net assets, and that the tradeoffs between poverty and vulnerability are not, one for one, the same as programmes and policies to reduce poverty to raise incomes.
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Poverty and Livelihoods: Whose Reality Counts?
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a challenge to all development professionals, including, as the author states, himself, to recognize, accept, act on and evolve that new agenda, demanding deep change in the ways we think and behave.
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Urban agriculture for sustainable cities: using wastes and idle land and water bodies as resources
TL;DR: Urban agriculture for sustainable cities as discussed by the authors describes how cities can be transformed from being only consumers of food and other agricultural products into important resource-conserving, health-improving, sustainable generators of these proucts.
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Environmental Problems in Third World Cities
TL;DR: The third in a series on Third World cities and focusing on urban environmental pollution is presented in this paper, which considers the scale and scope of environmental problems in cities and offers some priorities for action.
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Squatter Citizen: Life in the Urban Third World
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the development of Third World cities in the colonial and post-colonial periods, and the gap that continues to grow between the "legal" and the "illegal" city.