influences measurements of urban poverty and inequality in China, and also compares how other indicators of well-being differ for … measures of urban income inequality. Significant differences between migrants and local residents are found for non …

, sanitation, and education also have significant weights. The decline in deprivation is steeper in rural areas than urban areas …

has required real-time, researched data disaggregated for urban and rural populations and for various categories of the …, representing an unfair burden of distress resilience. Informal workers, women, and the urban poor have been disproportionately …

In the U.S. and other high-income countries, where most of the population lives in urban areas, there is intense … young children is influenced by both household and neighborhood standards of living. Using data from the urban samples of … appears that as a rule, poor urban households do not tend to live in uniformly poor communities; indeed, about 1 in 10 of a …

Global statistics suggest that people living in urban areas are more likely than those in rural areas to have access to … “improved water sourcesâ€. Women do most of the work of water collection in low-income urban areas, as they do in … rural areas. In this review of the literature on access to water and women’s work in low-income urban areas of the global …

vulnerabilities of the urban poor? [NTS Alert]. URL:[http://www.rsis.edu.sg/nts/HTML-Newsletter/Alert/pdf/NTS-Alert-1301.pdf] …

.3 billion people live in urban areas. This significant increase in urban population has resulted from both natural population … growth and rural to urban migration. It is important to emphasize that poverty tends to concentrate in cities. More than two …-thirds of the urban population lives in developing countries and the increasing level of urbanization in those countries have …