A tale of two cities: A multi-dimensional portrait of poverty and living conditions in the slums of Dakar and Nairobi

摘要: Abstract Our understanding of settlement conditions and the nature poverty across urban slums is limited. Using three simple frameworks, we create a meso-level portrait living in Dakar, Senegal Nairobi, Kenya. While slum residents both cities share challenge monetary poverty, their experience diverges significantly relative to employment levels, education, conditions. Nairobi’s relatively well-educated employed suffer from poorer conditions—as measured by access infrastructure services, housing quality crime—than who report much lower levels educational attainment paid employment. The research findings conventional development theory—particularly notions that education jobs will translate into improved More comparative needed better understand what drives more effective strategies improve lives all residents.