Urban Poverty, Health, and Community Action: Evidence from slums of Delhi

While the issue of poverty in the rural context has been studied extensively, there has been much less focus on poverty in urban settings despite the considerable challenges urban poverty poses to development. This research (Funded by Texas A&M University ) focuses on the issue of access to sanitation in legally recognized slums. Assistant Professor YuJung (Julia) Lee (Department of Political Science at Colorado State University) and Professor Tiffany Radcliff ( Texas A&M University ) investigate how and when community organization translates into political demands for basic services, and whether there are gender differences in the channels used for demands. Morsel collected data from Households in slum areas as well as surveyed community leaders’ and measured traffic at community toilets.