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Poverty Alleviation in Lagos Urban Informal Settlements : A Sustainable Livelihood Approach
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Oluwafemi |
| Copyright Year | 2013 |
| Abstract | Poverty and incidence of urban informality, especially in the developing countries, are on the increase in the face of the current high trend of urbanisation. Currently, More than half of the world population now lives in urban areas while over one third of the world’s urban population live in informal settlements with high incidence of urban poverty (UN-HABITAT, 2006; UN-HABITAT, 2008; Odero et al., 2009; Mundy and du Plessis, 2010; UNHSP, 2010). Informal settlement can said to be a spatial manifestation of certain living conditions which do not conform to formal planning and legal rules, standards and institutional arrangements, and the situations are often dynamic and complex, while poverty is the outcome of various dimensions of exclusions and deprivations. The proliferation of informal settlements and urbanisation of poverty as being currently experienced in the cities of developing countries, including Lagos, pose serious challenge to local, national and international urban managers as well as the attainment of most Millennium Development Goals (Barry and Ruther, 2001; UNECE, 2009). |
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| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
