Urban Poverty in Africa: From Understanding to Alleviation

by Sue Jones

This book looks at the urban poverty debate bringing together contributions from academics, practitioners and urban poverty specialists to represent a multi-disciplinary approach to the debate, highlighting the need to link policy, institutional and grassroots efforts. The first part of the book considers the structural contexts - how poverty has arisen, how poverty theory has sought to increase our understanding and how the policies of municipal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1853394742
• ISBN13: 9781853394744
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Intermediate Technology Publications
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"