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   Promoting Social Inclusion in Urban Areas: Policies and Practices

   Reports & Research

   September, 2005

   Rwanda

   Land & Investments

   Urban Tenure

   land investments

   land markets

   According to recent UN estimates, 924 million people - nearly one out of three urban dwellers – were living in slums in 2004. Of these, 874 million are from low and middle-income countries (Millennium Project, 2005). Urban poverty as a proportion of total poverty is clearly increasing: 43% of the population of developing cities are living in slums (28% in North Africa, 71% in sub-
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