Reaching The Urban Poor: Project Implementation In Developing Countries - Softcover

Cheema, G. Shabbir; Cheema, G Shabbir

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813371295 ISBN 13: 9780813371290

Publisher: Westview Press, 1986

Synopsis

As urban populatiCC'lS in developing countries oootinue to grow rapidly, cne of the nest critical issues in the Third has beoane shelter and other basic services such as clean water, heal th clinics, and sewage disposal to the urban poor. This book of nine case studies of urban programs and projects in Kenya, Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan, South Korea, India, and Sri Lanka focuses en impediments to slum upgrading. The authour discuss each project's evoluticn, the capabilities and resources of inplenenting agencies, the problems of interagency relaticoships and coordinaticn, costs and funding, the difficulties of developing effective linkages with poor and the accessibility of the new services to the urban poor.

Edition details

• Publisher: Westview Press
• Publication date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0813371295
• ISBN 13: 9780813371290
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 264