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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (2): 19–24.
Published: 01 June 2016
... squalor. Copyright © 2016 World Policy Institute 2016 India Mumbai Dharavi urban studies development housing zoning COURTESY OF RAHUL SRIVASTAVA/URBZ COURTESY OF RAHUL SRIVASTAVA/URBZ MUMBAI—A little over half of Mumbai’s nearly 12 million residents live in communities...
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (2): 63–69.
Published: 01 June 2018
... baskets filled with bomb components. In real life, Zohra Drif walked out of the Casbah and into one of the centers of European urban life at the time, the Place Bugeaud, named for French military officer Maréchal Bugeaud. The Maréchal had won renown for defeating Emir Abdel Kader, a 19th-century...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (2): 29–38.
Published: 01 June 2013
.... If they decide to bring their children with them into the cities, urban living costs could prove debilitating given the parents’ paltry salary. A range of social and institutional hurdles prevent the children from becoming fully integrated urban citizens. At the same time, if the parents choose to leave...
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World Policy Journal (2003) 20 (2): 51–60.
Published: 01 June 2003
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world for globetrotting travelers and foreign How far back should we look? There are
investors? In his influential study of Los An many places in history to begin. The most
geles, City of Quartz, urban theorist and Cal obvious is the two decades following the
ifornia historian Mike Davis argues...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (1): 82–90.
Published: 01 March 2012
...Christa Hasenkopf Christa Hasenkopf, an atmospheric scientist, is on a two-year study of particulate matter emissions in Ulaanbaatar, in collaboration with the National University of Mongolia and the University of Colorado. The research is funded by a National Science Foundation...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (4): 21–30.
Published: 01 December 2014
..., they will study a semester in a foreign country. Freelance hipsters are working on their notebooks in coffee bars. Nearby is a refugee center. A raft of volunteers, many jobless but with college degrees, are willing to help visitors find their way around town. Photo: Swishphotos “Foreigners can enrich...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (2): 3–7.
Published: 01 June 2015
... on agriculture. over the last several decades, unsustainable farming methods and increased costs led people to abandon their lands and move to urban areas. expected adverse consequences of climate change, such as loss of soil, scarce water resources, and reduction of crop yield, would only add to this crisis...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (2): 25–33.
Published: 01 June 2016
... and dispensaries between December 2010 and June 2011. Some 48 percent of the study respondents used government-supplied tap water. The rest used water pumped from unsanctioned bore wells or rooftop tanks, because the public water supply was either unavailable or too inconsistent to meet their household needs...
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World Policy Journal (2006) 22 (4): 25–35.
Published: 01 December 2006
....” Herald, October 9, 2005.
21. Glenn Kessler, “Powell Pledges More Sup 29. Max G. Manwaring, Street Gangs: The New
port for Colombia’s Anti-Rebel War,” Washington Urban Insurgency (Carlisle, PA: U.S. Army War
Post, December 5, 2002. College Strategic Studies Institute, March 2005),
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (1): 71–79.
Published: 01 March 2016
..., middle-class people.” It’s illegal in India to find out the sex of your fetus, but urban middle-class Indians with more disposable income can increasingly afford to pay for ultrasounds at private clinics or travel abroad to have ultrasounds done. Those same urban middle-class families can afford...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (3): 9–15.
Published: 01 September 2015
.... And I do not doubt that this view will grow stronger, especially in a hyperconnected world that can transform any crisis, especially a food crisis, into a global and systemic one. A child of both rural and urban education, I was in the countryside at every opportunity—in the park, the forest...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (1): 19–21.
Published: 01 March 2013
... parents can’t afford to pay the fees to make up the difference. The Hukou system is now being reformed, but it illustrates a wider problem. In our increasingly urban world, slum populations are growing by more than 20 million people each year—larger than the entire population of the Netherlands...
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World Policy Journal (2001) 17 (4): 25–32.
Published: 01 December 2001
...,” although this was a gross oversimpli
adapt to a new reality. To these can be added fication). It is also the legacy of Soviet and
others who have sought to carve out careers Russian studies within Western academe.
by advocating the expansion of U.S. influ Its practitioners were often deeply...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (4): 39–45.
Published: 01 December 2012
...Oyenike Adeosun Oyenike Adeosun holds a Ph.D. from the University of Ibadan, has served as a columnist for the newspaper Saturday Punch, and is on the faculty of Education of the University of Lagos. She has served as visiting researcher at the Center for the Study of International...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (1): 3–11.
Published: 01 March 2015
... of our basic rights seems to be forgotten. The right to privacy is virtually non-existent. If we choose to fight for our privacy, we need to implement uncomfortable solutions that require efforts many people are not willing to undertake. A study published by PEN International shows that the behavior...
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World Policy Journal (2004) 20 (4): 30–40.
Published: 01 December 2004
...Omar G. Encarnación Copyright © 2004 World Policy Institute 2004 Omar G . Encamación is associate professor o f political studies a t B ard College and the author, most recently, of The Myth
of Civil Society: Social Capital and Democratic Consolidation in Spain and Brazil (Paigrave...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (3): 3–8.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Sebastián Valenzuela; Valgeir Valdimarsson; Nwachukwu Egbunike; Matthew Fraser; Araba Sey; Tohir Pallaev; Pavin Chachavalpongpun; Erkan Saka; Igor Lyubashenko Sebastián Valenzuela is an assistant professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, where he studies the uses and effects...
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World Policy Journal (2002) 19 (1): 37–50.
Published: 01 March 2002
... Arafat increasing urbanization, and high popula
himself must bear for that have been lost tion growth rates have increased the audi
among the images of violence and death in ence for anti-regime sentiment— and the
the Palestinian community broadcast by potential recruiting base for opposition...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (1): 5–11.
Published: 01 March 2016
... to defend France’s postcolonial populations, so we created a party called the Natives of the Republic.” The Natives see France’s urban crisis, and the plight of minorities in the banlieues, as a new chapter in a colonial story that has yet to end. The term indigène in the party’s name refers...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (4): 1–2.
Published: 01 December 2014
... increasingly bleak, if hardly lacking for excitement and wealth. Armies of unemployed youths, crushing tax burdens, and anemic or negative growth has left large stretches of this continent gasping on life support. It is the nature of this urban, suburban, and rural landscape that we set out to explore...
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