The urban poor now constitute an unreached people group that is the third largest in the world—one that is doubling every decade and among the most responsive

Asian developing country urban water supplies have progressed little in the last 20 years. Coverage in cities with 24 hour piped, potable water is still under 5

In this revelatory book, Sudhir Venkatesh takes us into Maquis Park, a poor black neighborhood on Chicago's Southside, to explore the desperate and remarkable w

This is compounded by the lack of voice and influence that low income groups have in these official spheres.

In the early twentieth century, a time of political fragmentation and social upheaval in China, poverty became the focus of an anguished national conversation a