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David Satterthwaite is a senior fellow at the International Institute for Environment and Development and visiting professor at University College London. A book he co-authored with Diana Mitlin on Urban Poverty in the Global South: Scale and Nature will be published by Routledge later this year.
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OCT 15, 2012 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Rethinking Development Finance for City "Slums"
The Asian Coalition for Community Action is challenging the top-down Big Aid funding model by providing small grants to low-income communities for the initiatives of ...