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UN Endorses a Uniform Measure for Urbanization


slums - SDG indicator metadata - the United Nations

... (UN-Habitat) is the specialized agency for sustainable urbanization and human settlements in the United Nations. The mandate derives from the.

Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing ...

Since its earliest years, the United Nations has issued a series of international principles and recommendations on population and housing censuses to assist ...

Measuring Urbanization: Why India Needs to Re-think its Methodology

In this socio-economic backdrop, the criteria chosen to delineate rural and urban areas were supposed to prevent inflation of the country's ...

United Nations Conference on Environment & Development

http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/agenda21.htm. Reproduction and dissemination ... as an expedient measure and pragmatic solution to the urban shelter deficit;.

INEQUALITY IN A RAPIDLY CHANGING WORLD - the United Nations

... measure the distribution of income. In its report ... 74 No uniform set of criteria are currently available to distinguish urban areas from rural areas.

Good Practices of Accessible Urban Development - the United Nations

Mention of the names of firms and commercial products does not imply the endorsement of the United Nations. ST/ESA/364. United Nations. Department of Economic ...