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Improving Donor Support for Urban Poverty Reduction: A focus on South Asia

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The growing urbanization of poverty poses a significant challenge to governments and donors alike, particularly in Asia, which houses 60 per cent of the world's slum dwellers. Donors have been slow to respond to the urban challenge, however, both in their funding patterns and their priorities. There remains, therefore, significant scope for tangible benefits for the urban poor through greater formal and informal recognition, and in the process, through improved access to services and infrastructure, and improved health outcomes.

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  • Nicola Banks, 2011. "Improving Donor Support for Urban Poverty Reduction: A focus on South Asia," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2011-068, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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