Baseco Compound, a shantytown of 50,000 people on the edge of Manila Bay, is the familiar face of poverty in villages and urban slums around the world. Yet there's also good news, albeit qualified ...

Population growth and insufficient housing have led to the development of informal settlements or slums on city outskirts around the world. Over one billion people live in these settlements ...

In the Vanzara Vas slum ... world's largest wire services, it provides financial news as well as international coverage in over 16 languages to more than 1000 newspapers and 750 broadcasters ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Poor people in vast city slums across the Global South are ... Mountains of plastic waste The world has produced more plastic in the past 20 years than the total ...

That is particularly true in places like Kibera, one of the East African nation's largest and oldest slums. "You can look for a plumber around here ... the informal world of tin-shack ...

With an estimated 6.5 million people residing in these conditions, Mumbai has the largest slum population of any city in the world. This disparity is not unique to India. As cities around the ...