Fast economic growth in many countries often carries a high price for some of the poorest residents: Vast slums are cleared by urban planners and commercial developers, sometimes by force. But there's ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As the United Nations prepares a 20-year plan to cope with the challenges of booming urbanization, residents of the world's five biggest slums are battling to ...

They are referred to as informal settlements, as if political correctness can camouflage the stench of poor governance, open sewers, grinding poverty, hopelessness and shattered dreams from the word ...

Doctor Giuseppe Bolotta is an Assistant Professor of Southeast Asian Studies at the Department of Asian and North African Studies at the Ca Foscari University of Venice. He is also a Research ...

In this article, we take a look at the 20 countries with the lowest slum population in the world. If you would like to skip our detailed analysis of slum populations, you can directly go to 5 ...

In this article, we take a look at 12 countries with the largest slum population in Europe. If you would like to skip our detailed analysis of European slums, you can directly go to the 5 Countries ...

It was a day of gratitude and appreciation, as happy slum dwellers filled the hall of the Nigeria Stored Product Research Institute (NSPRI) Lagos, on Monday April 3. From far and wide, ecstatic slum ...