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Eminent housing and urban development consultant Geoffrey Payne offers a personal view on the international framework governing the global urban agenda, taking aim at the retrograde steps taken by international agencies in recent years, and exhorting professionals to break out of their silos and to reach beyond preaching to the converted.

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Ironically this forces the poor into the very situations that the elites hate--slums and informal settlements--so that the victims of government incapacity become its scapegoats.

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