CARE's Urban Report
CITIES ON THE BRINK
Urban poverty in the 21st century
CARE’s figures show that every day 100,000 people move into a slum in the developing world – that’s equivalent to one person every second. The current response from international donors and national and city governments is nowhere near adequate to address the squalid conditions that 1 billion slum-dwellers are living in today. Nor are adequate measures in place to deal with the fact that this number is set to double in the next 25 years.
CARE argues that current approaches to aid overlook this crucial aspect of global poverty which must be addressed if we are to achieve fundamental and lasting change for poor people worldwide.
in this section
- Urban poverty
- CARE's Urban Report
- Urban Poverty - What CARE is doing about it
- Life without a modern cities basic services is standard in Angola's shanty towns
- The struggle to find a job in Mozambique’s growing capital
- Life in the largest slum in Africa
- Setting the stage for border development
What we do
