Urban Services and Child Migration to the Slums of Nairobi

World Development

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1854-1869

  Archambault, Caroline S ^a   de Laat, Joost ^b   Zulu, Eliya Msiyaphazi ^c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b WORLD BANK   (United States)

^c African Institute for Development Policy AFIDEP   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Africa; Children; Informal settlements; Kenya; Slum upgrading; Urban services

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; CHILD WELFARE; INFORMAL SETTLEMENT; PLANNING PRACTICE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESEARCH WORK; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; URBAN AREA; URBAN PLANNING;

KENYA; NAIROBI [KENYA]; NAIROBI [NAIROBI (ADS)];

EID: 84863207759     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2012.03.006     Document Type: Article

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