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Collective Action and Urban Poverty Alleviation - Community Organizations and the Struggle for Shelter in Manila (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Collective Action and Urban Poverty Alleviation - Community Organizations and the Struggle for Shelter in Manila (Hardcover, New Ed)
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An estimated 600 million people now live in informal or 'squatter'
settlements in the rapidly growing cities of the developing world.
With such settlements often lacking basic necessities, there is an
urgent need to address this urban crisis. Recently, innovative
approaches have focused on the role of community-based
organizations (CBOs) in setting up self-help and participatory
programmes. This incisive book questions whether communities have
the ability to organize, engage government and undertake major
redevelopment. It also examines when and how mobilization of
communities occurs and if such organizations possess any influence
in the intensely political decision-making arena of urban land
development. It is illustrated by a detailed analysis of the
experience of CBOs in Manila, as the Philippine government has
undertaken what is perhaps the most radical experiment in
decentralized, participatory approaches to urban governance in the
world. The book emphasizes the external conditions that influence
patterns of collective action within communities and addresses
issues such as the local political economy and the communities'
place within the global economy.
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