Rethinking Urban Risk and Resettlement in the Global South

Rethinking Urban Risk and Resettlement in the Global South
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Total Pages : 336
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ISBN-10 : 1787358291
ISBN-13 : 9781787358294
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis Rethinking Urban Risk and Resettlement in the Global South by : Garima Jain

A study on urban risk and resettlement programs in the Global South in the era of climate change. Environmental changes impact everyone, but the burden is especially heavy upon the lives and livelihoods of the urban poor and those living in informal settlements. In an effort to reduce urban residents' exposure to climate change and natural disasters, resettlement programs are becoming widespread across the Global South. Yet, while resettlement may reduce a region's future climate-related disaster risk, it can also often increase poverty and vulnerability. This volume collates the findings from a research project that examined urban areas across the globe, including case studies from India, Uganda, Peru, Colombia, Mexico, Cambodia, and the Philippines. The book offers a unique approach to resettlement, providing an opportunity for urban planners to re-think how disaster risk management can better address the accumulation of urban risks in the era of climate change.

Assessing Aid

Assessing Aid
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Publisher : World Bank Publications
Total Pages : 164
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ISBN-10 : 0195211235
ISBN-13 : 9780195211238
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Synopsis Assessing Aid by :

Assessing Aid determines that the effectiveness of aid is not decided by the amount received but rather the institutional and policy environment into which it is accepted. It examines how development assistance can be more effective at reducing global poverty and gives five mainrecommendations for making aid more effective: targeting financial aid to poor countries with good policies and strong economic management; providing policy-based aid to demonstrated reformers; using simpler instruments to transfer resources to countries with sound management; focusing projects oncreating and transmitting knowledge and capacity; and rethinking the internal incentives of aid agencies.

Rethinking Poverty

Rethinking Poverty
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Publisher : UN
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 9211302781
ISBN-13 : 9789211302783
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis Rethinking Poverty by : United Nations. Department of Economic and Social Affairs

The 2010 issue of the Report on the World Social Situation focuses on the challenge of achieving poverty reduction. The Millennium Development Goals seek to halve, by 2015, the level of extreme poverty that existed since 1990. The Report begins with an overview of global, regional and selected country poverty trends over the period 1981-2005, critically examines the conventional policy framework and popular poverty reduction programmes, argues that a commitment to eradicating poverty and to enhancing equity and social integration requires consistent actions directed towards sustainable economic growth, productive employment creation and social development, entailing an integrated approach to economic and social policies for the benefit of all citizens. It recommends consideration of the policy approaches that have dominated the disclosure on growth and poverty thus far.

Dead Aid

Dead Aid
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 209
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ISBN-10 : 9780374139568
ISBN-13 : 0374139563
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Synopsis Dead Aid by : Dambisa Moyo

Debunking the current model of international aid promoted by both Hollywood celebrities and policy makers, Moyo offers a bold new road map for financing development of the world's poorest countries.

Urban Planning Against Poverty

Urban Planning Against Poverty
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 218
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ISBN-10 : 9783030284190
ISBN-13 : 3030284190
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis Urban Planning Against Poverty by : Jean-Claude Bolay

This open access book revisits the theoretical foundations of urban planning and the application of these concepts and methods in the context of Southern countries by examining several case studies from different regions of the world. For instance, the case of Koudougou, a medium-sized city in one of the poorest countries in the world, Burkina Faso, with a population of 115.000 inhabitants, allows us to understand concretely which and how these deficiencies are translated in an African urban context. In contrast, the case of Nueve de Julio, intermediate city of 50.000 dwellers in the pampa Argentina, addresses the new forms of spatial fragmentation and social exclusion linked with agro export and crisis of the international markets. Case studies are also included for cities in Asia and Latin America. Differences and similarities between cases allow us to foresee alternative models of urban planning better adapted to tackle poverty and find efficient ways for more inclusive cities in developing and emerging countries, interacting several dimensions linked with high rates of urbanization: territorial fragmentation; environmental contamination; social disparities and exclusion, informal economy and habitat, urban governance and democracy.

Fighting Poverty Together

Fighting Poverty Together
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 297
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ISBN-10 : 9780230120235
ISBN-13 : 0230120237
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Synopsis Fighting Poverty Together by : A. Karnani

In this hard-hitting polemical Karnani demonstrates what is wrong with today's approaches to reducing poverty. He proposes an eclectic approach to poverty reduction that emphasizes the need for business, government and civil society to partner together to create employment opportunities for the poor.

Rethinking Poverty

Rethinking Poverty
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Publisher : Policy Press
Total Pages : 184
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ISBN-10 : 9781447340607
ISBN-13 : 1447340604
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis Rethinking Poverty by : Barry Knight

This book calls for a bold forward-looking social policy that addresses continuing austerity, under-resourced organisations and a lack of social solidarity. Based on a research programme by the Webb Memorial Trust, a key theme is power which shows that the way forward is to increase people’s sense of agency in building the society that they want.

Urban Poor Funds

Urban Poor Funds
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Publisher : IIED
Total Pages : 86
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ISBN-10 : 9781843697091
ISBN-13 : 1843697092
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis Urban Poor Funds by : Diana Mitlin