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Urban futures
Urban futures: economic growth and poverty reduction
edited by Nabeel Hamdi with Jane Handal
Publisher: Rugby, UK : ITDG Pub., 2005.
ISBN: 1853395994   DDC: 339.46091724  

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-222) and index.

I: The dynamics of poverty and urban poverty research -- 1.
Understanding urban and the management of change / David
Satterthwaite -- 2. Understanding poverty: urban longitudinal
research methodology / Caroline Moser -- 3. Young lives: panel
studies and child poverty / Trudy Harpham, Ian Wilson and Sharon
Huttly -- 4. Poverty and urban violence / Leo Thomas -- II: The
dynamics of urban systems -- 5. A question of voice: informality and
pro-poor policy in Johannesburg, South Africa / Steven Friedman,
Kenny Hlela and Paul Thulare --

6. Begging, requesting, demanding, negotiating: moving towards urban
poor partnerships in governance / Mary Racelis -- 7. Migratory flows,
poverty and social inclusion in Latin America / Mona Serageldin, Yves
Cabannes, Elda Solloso and Luis Valenzuela -- 8, Room for manoeuvre:
tenure and the urban poor in India / Sunil Kumar -- 9. Urban housing
and livelihoods: comparative case examples from Kenya and India /
Michael Majale -- 10. Housing policy and economic reform: a
comparative case of Argentina and Mexico / Cecilia Zanetta -- 11.
Land for housing the poor in African cities: are neo-customary
processes an effective alternative to formal systems? / Alain
Durand-Lasserve -- 12. Street trade in Kenya: the contribution of
research in policy dialogue and response / Winnie V. Mitullah -- The
answers we need now to prepare for our urban futures / Shlomo Angel.

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Dewey Class: 339.46091724 -- Macroeconomics & related topics

Book Details:

Language: eng
Physical Description: xv, 228 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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