Urban Livelihoods
Subtitle: A People-Centred Approach to Reducing Poverty
Contributors: Carole Rakodi (Editor); Tony Lloyd (Editor)
Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd.
Published: April 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781853838606
Subjects: Central government policies; Development economics; Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Dev.; Developing countries; Social Science; Business / Economics / Finance; Urban poor; Sociology; Sociology - Urban; General; Poverty; Political Science / City Planning & Urban Development; Community development, Urban
First sentence: The increased attention being paid to livelihoods in both research and policy follows from a wide recognition that few rural or urban households, especially poor households in middle- and low-income countries, rely on a single income-generating activity (farming or wage employment) to support themselves.