According to Mike Davis, author of Planet of Slums, nearly 80% of Nigeria's urban population, or some 41.6 million people, live in slums. The comparable numbers in India are 56% and 158.4 million.

About a sixth of the world's population — nearly 1 billion people — live in slums, and that number could double by 2030 if developed nations don't reverse course and start giving the issue ...

When residents of a slum cluster in New Delhi's Janta Camp area heard that the G20 Summit was to be held in the Indian capital, barely 500 metres from their homes, they expected it would benefit ...

Slums continue to expand in many developing countries. More than 800 million people live in slum areas globally. And yet very little is understood about their health vulnerabilities.

THE slum is as old as civilization. Civilization implies a race, to get ahead. In a race there are usually some who for one cause or another cannot keep up, or are thrust out from among their fellows.

Increasingly, slums in prime locations, like the one near the Mumbai international airport chronicled in Katherine Boo’s Behind the Beautiful Forevers, have become the site of negotiations ...

MUMBAI—In this land-starved financial capital of India, where millions live in slums, a developer late last year started razing two-story brick shanties and tin-shelters near Dhobi Ghat, the ...

The Indian slum scenes – recreated in New Mexico – have also attracted criticism from movie-goers quoted in the newspaper. “There is no reason to be happy about the Indian connection (in The ...

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