Este trabajo forma parte de un estudio realizado en el marco del proyecto Pobreza urbana: estrate... more Este trabajo forma parte de un estudio realizado en el marco del proyecto Pobreza urbana: estrategia orientada a la accion para los gobiernos e instituciones municipales en America Latina y el Caribe, sobre experiencias emblematicas que contribuyen a la superacion de la precariedad y pobreza urbana. En su conjunto, las experiencias emblematicas dan cuerpo a los lineamientos principales de una agenda estrategica para la superacion de la precariedad y pobreza urbana en America Latina y el Caribe. Se analizaron diecinueve casos de intervenciones significativas en el habitat urbano en cinco areas prioritarias: suelo, servicios urbanos, vivienda, espacio publico y empleo e ingresos, con la intencion de ilustrar y ejemplificar los aprendizajes regionales en el campo de la precariedad urbana y la pobreza. Esta publicacion aborda a traves de un analisis de distintos proyectos emblematicos los principales desafios para las politicas publicas en materia de vivienda. Las politicas de Estado en...
the tipping point of urban conflict: violence, cities and poverty reduction in the developing wor... more the tipping point of urban conflict: violence, cities and poverty reduction in the developing world Working Paper #3
This article argues that existing inequalities of all kinds in the city of Santiago de Chile are ... more This article argues that existing inequalities of all kinds in the city of Santiago de Chile are symptoms of the gap between those who are favoured by the distribution of benefits and those who are at the margins of this process. We propose that these groups are differentiated not only by the socioeconomic sector to which they belong but also by the part of the city in which they live. People’s exclusion is also affected by gender. The point of view taken is that although these inequalities have a systemic and structural nature, they are not abstract elements in people’s lives. We claim that, in fact, they are social, economic, political and institutional types of violence, which affect individuals and groups.(1) These types of violence, which in turn have visible manifestations (such as direct violence) and invisible manifestations (such as structural and cultural violence),(2) are examined in the case of Santiago de Chile in the context of three different socioeconomic districts (...
Many donor agencies are recognizing the need to address the growing levels of urban poverty in Af... more Many donor agencies are recognizing the need to address the growing levels of urban poverty in Africa, Latin America and much of Asia. Many also acknowledge that they had under-estimated the scale of urban poverty. As they develop or expand programmes on poverty reduction in urban areas, there are many remarkable initiatives on whose experience they can draw. This paper reflects on the lessons from seven of these: three from Asia, three from Latin America and one from Africa. All these initiatives combined direct action by low-income groups themselves, working with local NGOs, with some support negotiated from one or more external agency in order to improve housing and living conditions, basic services and livelihoods. Each initiative sought to make limited funding go as far as possible-and most achieved partial or total cost recovery for some (or all) of their interventions. All used credit to allow low-income groups to spread the cost of capital investment over a number of years. ...
Este trabajo forma parte de un estudio realizado en el marco del proyecto Pobreza urbana: estrate... more Este trabajo forma parte de un estudio realizado en el marco del proyecto Pobreza urbana: estrategia orientada a la accion para los gobiernos e instituciones municipales en America Latina y el Caribe, sobre experiencias emblematicas que contribuyen a la superacion de la precariedad y pobreza urbana. En su conjunto, las experiencias emblematicas dan cuerpo a los lineamientos principales de una agenda estrategica para la superacion de la precariedad y pobreza urbana en America Latina y el Caribe. Se analizaron diecinueve casos de intervenciones significativas en el habitat urbano en cinco areas prioritarias: suelo, servicios urbanos, vivienda, espacio publico y empleo e ingresos, con la intencion de ilustrar y ejemplificar los aprendizajes regionales en el campo de la precariedad urbana y la pobreza. Esta publicacion aborda a traves de un analisis de distintos proyectos emblematicos los principales desafios para las politicas publicas en materia de vivienda. Las politicas de Estado en...
the tipping point of urban conflict: violence, cities and poverty reduction in the developing wor... more the tipping point of urban conflict: violence, cities and poverty reduction in the developing world Working Paper #3
This article argues that existing inequalities of all kinds in the city of Santiago de Chile are ... more This article argues that existing inequalities of all kinds in the city of Santiago de Chile are symptoms of the gap between those who are favoured by the distribution of benefits and those who are at the margins of this process. We propose that these groups are differentiated not only by the socioeconomic sector to which they belong but also by the part of the city in which they live. People’s exclusion is also affected by gender. The point of view taken is that although these inequalities have a systemic and structural nature, they are not abstract elements in people’s lives. We claim that, in fact, they are social, economic, political and institutional types of violence, which affect individuals and groups.(1) These types of violence, which in turn have visible manifestations (such as direct violence) and invisible manifestations (such as structural and cultural violence),(2) are examined in the case of Santiago de Chile in the context of three different socioeconomic districts (...
Many donor agencies are recognizing the need to address the growing levels of urban poverty in Af... more Many donor agencies are recognizing the need to address the growing levels of urban poverty in Africa, Latin America and much of Asia. Many also acknowledge that they had under-estimated the scale of urban poverty. As they develop or expand programmes on poverty reduction in urban areas, there are many remarkable initiatives on whose experience they can draw. This paper reflects on the lessons from seven of these: three from Asia, three from Latin America and one from Africa. All these initiatives combined direct action by low-income groups themselves, working with local NGOs, with some support negotiated from one or more external agency in order to improve housing and living conditions, basic services and livelihoods. Each initiative sought to make limited funding go as far as possible-and most achieved partial or total cost recovery for some (or all) of their interventions. All used credit to allow low-income groups to spread the cost of capital investment over a number of years. ...
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