Empowering Squatter Citizen: Local Government, Civil Society and Urban Poverty Reduction

by David Satterthwaite (Author), Diana Mitlin (Author)

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  2004

  $3.40

  With the rapid growth in urban poverty in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, most cities have 30 to 60 per cent of their population living in shanty towns. This book contends that urban poverty is underpinned by the failure of national governments and aid agencies to support local processes.