Overcrowding is one reason slums are known incubators of disease. Informal settlements are typically 10 times denser than neighboring areas of the same city. The Dharavi slum in central Mumbai, for ...

Sprawling urban areas in Brazil, Nigeria and Bangladesh are all seeing COVID-19 infections rise rapidly. Yet, our research finds, many residents of slums and squatter settlements are not getting the ...

Every year, tens of thousands of people in Japan go missing on purpose to get a second shot at life. The South China Morning Post spoke to two men who have disappeared from their old lives. "I was ...

Visakhapatnam: Visakhapatnam is known for its long coastline, expanding IT corridors, and fast-growing industrial space. Yet, ...

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When people hear “slum,” they imagine poverty and despair, but Dharavi, one of the largest slums in the world, tells a ...

Government-enforced social isolation can be devastating for the nearly 1 billion people around the globe currently dwelling in urban slums, where physical space is scarce and many rely on daily wage ...

According to Global Wealth Report 2015, half of world’s wealth is now in the hands of 1% of population. In Manila, the Philippines’s capital, there is also a deep divide between the rich and the poor.

University of Melbourne provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. Charles Darwin University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Urban green spaces like parks with ...

In March, Argentina had a monthly rate of 6.7 percent, suggesting that economic conditions will not get any better in 2022. Food prices were especially affected, increasing 7.2 percent. “To make ...

Though Isabella Mogeni lost everything she owned, she was lucky to survive the heavy storm waters that swept through the Mukuru kwa Reuben slums in Nairobi, Kenya, last week, killing dozens of her ...

The government has declared May 10 a day of mourning to mark the deaths from disastrous floods and pledged to help. But some say the authorities... In Kenya's flooded slums, people mourn their losses ...