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221-225 of 287 matching articles 5 20 100 All "Merry-go-round" micro-finance keeps slum residents fed in Kibera IRIN • 13 April 2010 Working with CARE International, residents in Nairobi's Kibera slum have developed a lottery system to choose who benefits from their microfinance pool. Urban poverty alleviation in India: softening the rural-urban divide Charis Elizabeth Idicheria • 8 May 2012 Simply creating urban policies that parallel India's rural policies won't fully solve the problem of urban poverty, especially when migrants and other groups fall into the cracks between the two policy regimes. Has our focus on housing distracted us? Towards a right to space Kerwin Datu • 17 January 2012 Slum neighbourhoods are teeming with industry and commerce, yet the policy sphere still tends to treat them as residential spaces alone. What are the consequences of this misconception, and is it time to invoke a right to space, not just of housing? How do we reconcile the planner's perceptions with the slum dwellers' reality? India's Rajiv Awas Yojana Mukta Naik • 13 March 2012 The Government of India has launched a grand housing scheme for a 'slum-free India'. But can grand schemes work when planners and policymakers neither understand the reality of the urban poor nor connect to their aspirations? Three alternatives for implementing rent control deregulation in Mumbai Robin Houterman • 26 June 2012 While rent control deregulation is needed in Mumbai, the MRTA being proposed will cause too much of a shock. Robin Houterman proposes three alternative strategies. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58
