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Urban Poverty in Asia - Asian Development Bank
URBAN POVERTY
IN ASIA
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Acknowledgment
This paper was prepared by Om Prakash Mathur, distinguished professor of urban economics, National Institute of Urban Affairs, New Delhi for the International Policy Workshop on Urban Poverty and Inclusive Cities in Asia, organized by ADB and held on 24–25 June 2013 at Suqian, People’s Republic of China, and financed by a regional technical assistance project on Promoting Partnership for South–South Cooperation.
The author wishes to thank ADB staff Armin Bauer, Jörn Brömmelhörster, and Florian Steinberg for their guidance and comments.
The author wishes to thank also Dibyendu Samanta for his assistance in the preparation of this paper and Usha Mathur for word processing the script.
About the Author
Om Prakash Mathur is a distinguished professor of urban economics at the National Institute of Urban Affairs, New Delhi, India. He held the Infrastructure Development Finance Company chair in urban economics and finance at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi for over 15 years. He served from 1978 to 1984 as senior economic planner at the United Nations Centre for Regional Development, Nagoya, Japan; and from 1975 to 1978 as a United Nations senior regional planning adviser and project manager with the Government of Iran. Professor Mathur holds a master’s degree in economics from the Delhi School of Economics and has done graduate work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge; and Harvard University, Cambridge.
Professor Mathur is a member of the Prime Minister’s National Review Committee on the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM). He is also a member of the advisory committee of the ADB-GTZ Programme on City Development Initiative for Asia (CDIA) and of the advisory committee of the World Bank’s Global City Indicators Facility (GCIF).
The author can be reached at opmathur@niua.org.
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One in seven people worldwide live in poverty in urban areas, and most of them live in the global South—in overcrowded informal settlements that lack adequate water, sanitation, security, health care and schools. People there endure poor living and working conditions, low incomes and inadequate diets, which all add up to large health burdens or premature deaths. On top of these problems, the urban poor have little voice and few means to influence the policies and pressures that work against their interests.
Governments and aid agencies often fail to understand and provide for the urban poor because of the way they define and measure poverty, using systems based on the $1 per day poverty line. This greatly understates the scale and depth of urban poverty—set a poverty line too low and poverty seems to disappear. Such simplistic measures also take no account of the full dimensions of what poverty actually means to people who live it.
Urban Poverty in the Global South
Mitlin and Satterthwaite (2013)
1 Introduction
Developing Asia has achieved spectacular progress in reducing poverty. Between 1990 and 2010, Asia lifted 786 million people out of poverty, bringing down the headcount ratio to 20.8% from a high of 55.2%. In 2010, Asia’s share of the poor in the world’s (developing countries) total poor stood at 62.4%, roughly equal to its share in population, yet still an impressive performance since 1990 when Asia accounted for 81.0% of the world’s poor.
Despite this spectacular performance, poverty remains a formidable challenge for Asia. According to the World Bank, 758 million people in Asia are still below the $1.25 poverty line. Indeed, based on numbers of the poor and their share, global poverty is often viewed as a predominantly Asian phenomenon. Sub-Saharan Africa’s (SSA) share of the world’s poor is 34% while the other two regions—Latin America–Caribbean and