TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mitlin, Diana.
TI  - Urban poverty in the global South: scale and nature
SN  - 9780415624671
U1  - 362.5/2091724MIT 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Routledge
PB  - New York
KW  - Urban poor-Developing countries
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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 governments and international agencies worldwide. The authors also consider whether economic growth does in fact reduce poverty, exploring the paradox of successful economies that show little evidence of decreasing poverty
ER  -