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SECURING POSITIVE CHANGE IN INTERNATIONAL URBAN POVERTY REDUCTION POLICIES:
Is international action changing urban poverty on the ground or not?
The Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) framework has been put in place through one of the international agreements hosted by the United Nations where governments from around the globe have committed themselves to developing a series of actions addressing the reduction of poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and discrimination against women. Those MDGs most directly related to urban development and planning are located within Goal Number 7, which addresses environmental degradation and sets objectives in the areas of access to safe water and sanitation and improvements in slums. The MDG framework is but one example of several efforts emerging in the last half century identifying development targets at an international level of governance. However, such initiatives raise several questions.
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SECURING POSITIVE CHANGE IN INTERNATIONAL URBAN POVERTY REDUCTION POLICIES
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