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Coping Strategies among Urban Poor: Evidence from Nairobi, Kenya

AIMS: In Kenya, it is estimated that 60 to 80% of urban residents live in slum or slum-like conditions. This study investigates expenditures patterns of slum dwellers in Nairobi, their coping strategies and the determinants of those coping strategies. METHOD: We use a dataset from the Indicator Deve...

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Autores principales:	Amendah, Djesika D., Buigut, Steven, Mohamed, Shukri
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Public Library of Science 2014
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3888389/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24427272 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0083428

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