Making sense of urban poverty

This paper synthesizes recent work on urban poverty with an emphasis being placed on the relationship between urban poverty and the labour market. The themes considered include the distinction between permanent and temporary poverty and between trends and shocks. A number of distinctive features of urban poverty are discussed including the informal labour market, female headed households, the individualized nature of urban poverty and the greater exposure of urban residents to environmental risks. A final section considers policy implications, differentiating between promotive and protective strategies.

Basic needs · Business · Culture of poverty · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Poverty · Section (typography) · Urban poverty · Work (physics) · Employment and Welfare Studies · Engineering · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies