Making the Urban Poor Safer: Lessons from Nairobi and Mumbai
In Nairobi and Mumbai, urban violence concentrates in the poorest areas where lack of employment, adequate housing and public goods, and individual and collective coping strategies are most acute. As … Continue reading
Political capture and economic inequality
Oxfam – Massive concentration of economic resources in the hands of fewer people presents a real threat to inclusive political and economic systems, and compounds other inequalities – such as … Continue reading
Corporate colonisation of new India
Graham Peebles – Twenty years of corporate colonisation of the Indian countryside has fuelled conflict, forced-urbanisation and the breakdown of the democratic ideal. The fight for land is occurring in many … Continue reading
Why a war on poor people?
Daniel Little – American conservatives for the past several decades have shown a remarkable hostility to poor people in our country…One piece of the puzzle seems to come down to ideology … Continue reading
Towards a Quantifiable Measure of Resilience
Christophe Béné – The objective of this paper is twofold. First it illustrates and discusses some of the challenges related to the measurement of resilience by reviewing some of the … Continue reading
The Urgency of Enrolling Out-of-School Children
Milan Thomas – Although significant progress toward achieving universal primary education has been made over the past decade, out-of-school children (OOSC) remain a pervasive global problem. According to one estimate, … Continue reading
The New Poor in Latin America
In this paper we identify a group of people in Latin America and other developing countries that are not poor but not middle class either. We define them as the … Continue reading
Serious threat to Asian Economic Model
Martin Khor – The Western countries are increasingly attacking the Asian model, claiming that state-owned companies or state-aided commercial firms have an unfair advantage vis-à-vis the foreign firms competing with them…Of … Continue reading
