Urban Poverty in East Africa: Nairobi and Kampala’s Comparative Trajectories

Philip Amis
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Philip Amis: Urban policy and poverty, decentralization and institutional development and aid management in Sub-Saharan

Chapter 7 in African Urban Economies, 2006, pp 169-183 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The neighbouring countries of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania are collectively referred to as East Africa. Culturally similar and with Kiswahili as their lingua franca, they share a common history as former British colonies. All achieved national independence in the early 1960s and formed the East African community until 1977. In those decades, Tanzania and Kenya became respectively icons of socialist and capitalist models of development, often prompting their levels and rates of development to be compared.

Keywords: Urban Poor; Rural Land; Urban Poverty; Urban Livelihood; Income Rent (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230523012_7

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