Poverty

Our research on poverty highlights effective ways of addressing its root causes and practical steps for improving access to basic needs

Urban poverty

How IIED is working to reduce urban poverty and to change misleading views about urbanisation. More in this collection

Langrug informal settlement, South Africa, May 2014 (Photo: Diana Mitlin/IIED)
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Geographic patterns are seen out the window of an airplane traveling between Mwanza and Dar Es Salam, Tanzania on March 20, 2015 (Photo: Brian Sokol/Panos Pictures)
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Air balloon photograph of children while mapping Mathare informal settlement, Nairobi.
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