This Topic Guide, Livelihoods and Urbanisation, explores the challenges that people and communities face in constructing livelihoods in an urbanising world. The Topic Guide is structured around the Sustainable Livelihoods Framework (SLF), a conceptual approach developed in the late 1990s which remains a useful analytical tool today. The SLF clearly has wide applications to rural and urban settings, and to livelihoods in both the formal and informal economy, but, as distinctions are blurred and the literature on the informal economy better captures the vulnerabilities of marginalised urban livelihoods, the informal economy is the focus of this Topic Guide

Topic Guide: Livelihoods and Urbanisation

Resource Key: 3GH6EHF8

Document Type: Report

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Author:

  • Alison Brown
  • Alastair Smith

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Institution: Department for International Development (DFID)

Date: 2016

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This Topic Guide, Livelihoods and Urbanisation, explores the challenges that people and communities face in constructing livelihoods in an urbanising world. The Topic Guide is structured around the Sustainable Livelihoods Framework (SLF), a conceptual approach developed in the late 1990s which remains a useful analytical tool today. The SLF clearly has wide applications to rural and urban settings, and to livelihoods in both the formal and informal economy, but, as distinctions are blurred and the literature on the informal economy better captures the vulnerabilities of marginalised urban livelihoods, the informal economy is the focus of this Topic Guide

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