This paper reviews the literature on health in the informal settlements (and “slums”) that now
house a substantial proportion of the urban population in Africa, Asia and Latin America …

There has been a renewed interest in impact evaluation and measuring results in recent
years amongst development agencies and donors. This paper reviews the case for …

This book examines security in three cities that suffer from chronic violence: Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil; Medellin, Colombia; and Kingston, Jamaica. In each, democratic states contend with …

Over the last few decades, drug trafficking organizations in Latin America became infamous
for their shocking public crimes, from narcoterrorist assaults on the Colombian political …

Over the last decade, organized criminal violence has reached unprecedented levels and
has caused as much violent death globally as direct armed conflict. Nonetheless, the study …

This paper asks if mounting reliance on women and girls to solve world poverty is an
effective means to achieve greater female empowerment and gender equality, or whether …

Las zonas relegadas del conurbano bonaerense son mundos de carencias materiales y
afectivas, universos en los que la violencia se hace presente con brutal frecuencia …

A growing number of sociologists, political scientists, development economists, and
organizational theorists have invoked the concept of social capital in their search for …

The construct of the 'feminisation of poverty'has helped to give gender an increasingly
prominent place within international discourses on poverty and poverty reduction. Yet the …

Our world seems entangled in systems increasingly dominated by power, greed, ignorance,
self-deception and denial, with spiralling inequity and injustice. Against a backdrop of …