Developing Countries: Urban Areas
International Development
Anas Sarwar (Glasgow Central, Labour)
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how her Department assesses poverty and vulnerability in urban areas.
Alan Duncan (Minister of State, International Development; Rutland and Melton, Conservative)
DFID
draws on a range of information sources, including national poverty
surveys and consultations with poor people, to assess poverty and
vulnerability in urban areas.
The Department is
working with others to improve the tools to measure and understand urban
poverty. For example in Vietnam we are supporting a special poverty
survey for urban areas. In Bangladesh, DFID supports the Urban
Partnership for Poverty Reduction Programme, which has developed a new
way of measuring and monitoring urban poverty that includes people
living in slums and informal settlements, who were previously excluded
from the official statistics.
