Sentence examples for slum result from inspiring English sources

However, varying definitions of what constitutes a slum result in different slum population estimates.

Awareness creation in the slum has resulted in relatively high percentages of follow up.

"Slums are the result of an unfettered approach to urbanisation," said Hans Timmer, director of the World Bank team that produced the report.

Some 18 people were hurt in scattered violence; an NDP branch office in a Cairo slum was torched.Preliminary results show the Brotherhood capturing 34 seats, a huge increase that consolidates its standing as the NDP's only serious challenger.

Because of the lack of proper drainage in the slum, rain often results in floods, and 15 minutes of deluge is all it takes to start to engulf Ratan and Munni's house.

Producer-directors Nicole Newnham and Maren Grainger-Monsen spent several years tracking the hardscrabble lives of these kids in Kolkata, including Shikha and Salim, a pair of self-possessed friends (both are 11 when the film begins) whose efforts to bring a potable water tap to their slum yield impressive results.

As a result, many slum dwellers must buy their water from itinerant peddlers.

One result of slum clearance is that a considerable movement of people takes place over long distances, with devastating effect on the social groupings built up over years.

There was also a decrease in some urban populations as a result of slum clearance, overspill and relocation to new towns, with the population of Glasgow falling from over a million in 1951 to 629,000 in 2001.

For example, the high levels of morbidity, mortality and low utilisation of preventive services among slum residents are a result of inadequate inputs and processes in the public and private health system that serves this population.

The number of slums is a direct result of a lack of affordable housing in Lagos.