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9781853395994

Urban Futures

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    9781853395994

  • ISBN10:

    1853395994

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2005-05-30
  • Publisher: Practical Action Pub

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Summary

What kinds of research into poverty are most helpful to those trying to deal with key issues in poverty reduction in an urban setting: topics like shelter, land tenure, partnership, and migration?

Table of Contents

The Urban Management Series vii
Foreword ix
List of figures
xi
List of tables
xii
List of acronyms and abbreviations
xiii
Introduction 1(4)
Nabeel Hamdi
Part I The dynamics of poverty and urban poverty research
5(44)
Understanding urban and the management of change
7(14)
David Satterthwaite
Understanding poverty: urban longitudinal research methodology
21(11)
Caroline Moser
Young Lives: panel studies and child poverty
32(7)
Trudy Harpham
Ian Wilson
Sharon Huttly
Poverty and urban violence
39(10)
Leo Thomas
Part II The dynamics of urban systems
49(139)
A question of voice: informality and pro-poor policy in Johannesburg, South Africa
51(18)
Steven Friedman
Kenny Hlela
Paul Thulare
Begging, requesting, demanding, negotiating: moving towards urban poor partnerships in governance
69(20)
Mary Racelis
Migratory flows, poverty and social inclusion in Latin America
89(20)
Mona Serageldin
Yves Cabannes
Elda Solloso
Luis Valenzuela
Room for manoeuvre: tenure and the urban poor in India
109(16)
Sunil Kumar
Urban housing and livelihoods: comparative case examples from Kenya and India
125(17)
Michael Majale
Housing policy and economic reform: a comparative case of Argentina and Mexico
142(18)
Cecilia Zanetta
Land for housing the poor in African cities: are neo-customary processes an effective alternative to formal systems?
160(15)
Alain Durand-Lasserve
Street trade in Kenya: the contribution of research in policy dialogue and response
175(13)
Winnie V. Mitullah
Epilogue: The answers we need now to prepare for our urban futures 188(7)
Shlomo Angel
Notes on authors 195(7)
Notes 202(7)
References 209(14)
Index 223

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