Reducing urban poverty in the global South

1. Introduction -- 2. Approaches to poverty reduction in towns and cities of the global south -- 3. The work of local, national and international agencies -- 4. Citizen-led poverty reduction -- 5. Understanding pro-poor politics and pro-poor transformation -- 6. A future that low-income urban dwellers want : and can help secure.

Urban areas in the Global South now house most of the world's urban population and are projected to house almost all its increase between now and 2030. There is a growing recognition that the scale of urban poverty has been overlooked - and that it is increasing both in numbers and in the proportion of the world's poor population that live and work in urban areas. This is the first book to review the effectiveness of different approaches to reducing urban poverty in the Global South. It describes and discusses the different ways in which national and local governments