Search Results for 'Urban'

Durban Port's Poverty, Consumerism, Enoughness

If an oil carrying ship hits the rocks off the Durban coast where I live it will cause a spill that will create many jobs, to pick up all the dead birds from the beaches up and down the coast. Economists who love capitalism do not see a p [...]

Posted On : Apr, 30 2013 | Comments : 0

Delhi's irony: Urban Poverty

Each time 25 year old Salma takes her one year old son Zubair to the Batla Clinic (a private clinic in Delhi) for a shot of the DPT, the cost of transportation and the vaccine adds up to approximately Rs.500. When it is time for [...]

Posted On : Apr, 09 2012 | Comments : 0

Urban poverty’s hidden dimensions threaten development, new ...

Residents of urban settlements with low incomes suffer from poor living conditions and limited access to services, which have far-reaching consequences on their well-being, a new research reveals on International Women’s Day. The [...]

Posted On : Mar, 09 2012 | Comments : 0

Cities undergoing urban renewal to check poverty

HALF of humanity now lives in towns and cities, and trends show that this figure will increase to two-thirds within the next two generations. Over one billion people are living in slums. What does the future hold for them? Rapidly d [...]

Posted On : Oct, 04 2010 | Comments : 0

Face of urban poverty

As India is getting rapidly urbanised, a disturbing phenomenon – ‘urbanisation of poverty’ – is taking deep roots. Being the fastest urbanising State in the country, this is of serious concern to Tamil Nadu in gener [...]

Posted On : Sep, 08 2009 | Comments : 0

Suburban poverty is a sharp reality

Poverty and Johnson County. The two seemingly don’t go together. But stop by Shawnee Community Services in Shawnee, as I did last week, and witness the need yourself. All day long, you will see people who lack food or other necessitie [...]

Posted On : May, 05 2009 | Comments : 0

Poverty a problem in urban areas

There is a serious need to address poverty in urban areas compared to rural areas, says Fiji's interim Social Welfare minister Dr Jiko Luveni.DR Luveni said according to the latest surveys done, around 37-38 percent of Fiji’s populati [...]

Posted On : Feb, 06 2009 | Comments : 0

Urban food poverty up by 2 per cent

Urban food poverty in Kenya has increased by two per cent in the last decade, an anti-poverty organisation says.The Global Call to Action Against Poverty says that in 1997, urban food poverty incidence in the country stood at 38.3 percent, [...]