By 2020, there will be 1.5 billion people living in slums, the majority of whom are unmapped. ... Mapping Poverty to Save More Than a Billion Lives in the World's Most Remote Slums ...

Slums (our term) refer to areas of concentrated poverty where at least 40 percent of individuals live under the poverty line. In the 1990s, America's slum population decreased from 9,101,622 to ...

Poverty is multidimensional. It is not only about money. Yet poverty in Lagos slums has often been studied using traditional methods that focus mostly on income thresholds.

Abject poverty, particularly amongst the country’s black population, is pervasive," explains Jacob Lief, ... This Solution To Poverty In Slums Needs To Be Rapidly Replicated.

Workers for a local aid group reflect on poverty, health and a recent forced eviction in the slums of Bangladesh. Skip to main content. WBUR. 90.0 WBUR - Boston's NPR News Station.

Dec. 13, 2010— -- In the slums of Dhaka, Bangladesh, even the simple act of giving your child a glass of water requires an act of faith. Parvin, a mother of four, knows this all too well ...

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Poverty tours give outsiders a chance to see a way of life they would otherwise not see. Critics say the tours amount to gawking. ... decried poverty tours of Nairobi’s largest slum, Kibera.

Lagos slums are characterized by high levels of poverty—the state of not having enough resources to meet basic needs for living, such as food, water, shelter, health care and education.