Description:Urban areas in the Global South now house most of the world' s urban population and are projected to house almost all the increase in the world' s population between now and 2030 (and possibly beyond). There is a growing recognition that urban poverty is increasing ' both in the numbers affected and in the proportion of the world' s poor population. This is the first book to review the effectiveness of different approaches to reducing urban poverty in the Global South. It describes and discusses the different ways in which national and ...