UN-HABITAT twenty first session of the Governing Council, 16-20 April 2007, Nairobi, Kenya: globalisation and the poor, poverty amid affluence
This UN-HABITAT report concludes that economic globalisation adversely affects the poor in developing countries and indirectly contributes to slum formation. In the great game of globalisation - who wins? Is escalating poverty and the often brutal deconstruction of political systems and communities in the least developed countries worth the potential gain from a minimal trickle of international capital? Are there real opportunities from globalisation that will ultimately benefit all the world and its citizens? These are some of the key questions raised in UN-HABITAT’s The Challenge of Slums: Global Report on Human Settlements 2003, released in October 2003.