Habitat And Urbanisation

The political economy of public goods provision in slums - Preliminary results from a field study in urban Pakistan

For the first time in human history the urban population outnumbers the rural one. This is both due to villages growing to become towns and cities, and migration of the rural population to urban cities.

Publication Date: 
09/07/2014
Mahvish Shami, Hadia Majid
International Growth Centre
Tags:
Slums, Services, Pakistan, South Asia, Migration, Informal Sector, Urban Housing, Poverty, Squatter Settlement, Urban Water Supply, Urban Sanitation