Urban Livelihoods A People-Centred Approach to Reducing Poverty

About this book

Assesses the value of the livlihoods approach in analysing urban poverty and guiding policy, before moving on to examine the situation and strategies of poor urban people. Concludes with a review of project experience and identifies practical implications.

Contents

Foreword by Clare Short * Preface: the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach and the Department for International Development * Introduction * Part 1: Livelihoods and the Poverty Context * Part 2: Understanding the Situations and Strategies of Poor People* Part 3: The Policy Implications of Urban Livelihoods Analysis * Part 4: Urban Poverty Reduction: Lessons from Experience * Part 5: Conclusions * Index

Customer Reviews

Biography

Carole Rakodi is Professor of International Urban Development at the University of Birmingham. She is author of Harare: Inheriting a Settler-Colonial City: Change or Continuity? And editor of The Urban Challenge in Africa: Growth and Management of its Largest Cities. Tony Lloyd-Jones is a senior lecturer and researcher in urban design and development at the University of Westminster, and urban policy and physical adviser to DFID.