Urban Livelihoods - A People-centred Approach to Reducing Poverty

List of contents

Foreword by Clare Short * Preface: the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach and the Department for International Development * Introduction * Part 1: Livelihoods and the Poverty Context * Part 2: Understanding the Situations and Strategies of Poor People* Part 3: The Policy Implications of Urban Livelihoods Analysis * Part 4: Urban Poverty Reduction: Lessons from Experience * Part 5: Conclusions * Index

About the author

Tony Lloyd-Jones, Carole Rakodi

Summary

One important approach to poverty reduction in developing countries is to encourage sustainable livelihoods for the poor, taking account of their opportunities and sources of vulnerability. "Urban Livelihoods" applies this approach to the urban poor, identifying the policies that work best.

Product details

• Authors: Tony Lloyd-Jones, Carole Rakodi
• Assisted by: Tony Lloyd-Jones (Editor), Carole Rakodi (Editor), Rakodi Carole (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2002
• EAN: 9781853838613
• ISBN: 978-1-85383-861-3
• No. of pages: 328
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 498 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, Poverty & unemployment, Development Studies, Poverty and precarity