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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

The Maharashtra government, in a major sop to the numerically-significant and powerful constituency of slum dwellers, has announced cluster redevelopment of slums housed on land parcels measuring 50 ...

MUMBAI: The Supreme Court paved the way for a large slum rehabilitation scheme for the development of the Bharat Nagar slum in Bandra East at a prime location, dismissing an appeal by several slum ...