While governments and donors focus on health care for those living in rural poverty in developing countries, the residents of the world's slums are being neglected, writes Priya Shetty.
The world is becoming more urbanised overall (? gure). 2008 was a demographic turning point—for the ?rst time, according to the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), more people lived in urban areas than in rural ones. Yet these new urbanites, especially in developing countries, are overwhelming cities that were never designed to have so many inhabitants, and therefore simply do not have the infrastructure to cope.
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- UN Habitat - Urban Response Collection
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- Urban Response Collection - Community Engagement and Social Cohesion
- Urban Response Collection - Economic Recovery
- Urban Response Collection - Environment and Climate Change
- Urban Response Collection - Housing, Land and Property
- Urban Response Collection - Urban Crisis Response, Recovery and Reconstruction
- Urban Response Collection - Urban Resilience