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The Face of Urban Poverty: Explaining the Prevalence of Slums in Developing Countries

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One of the most visible and enduring manifestations of urban poverty in developing countries is the formation and proliferation of slums. While attention has focused on the rapid pace of urbanization as the sole or major factor explaining the proliferation of slums and squatter settlements in developing countries, there are other factors whose impacts are not known with much degree of certainty. It is also not clear how the effects of these factors vary across regions of the developing world.

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  • Ben C. Arimah, 2010. "The Face of Urban Poverty: Explaining the Prevalence of Slums in Developing Countries," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2010-030, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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