Empowering Squatter Citizen
Subtitle: Local Government, Civil Society and Urban Poverty Reduction
Contributors: Diana Mitlin (Editor); David Satterthwaite (Editor)
Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd.
Published: June 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781844071005
Subjects: Development studies; Social Classes; Government policy; Social Science; Sociology; Urban poor; Poverty; Sociology - Urban; Social Science / Poverty; Developing countries; Case studies; Services for
First sentence: This book presents case studies of eight initiatives designed to address the deprivations faced by the urban poor: four that were government initiatives and four that were civil-society initiatives (although each of the civil-society initiatives sought to work with government).