URBAN SOCIAL POLICY IN POOR COUNTRIES: THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL DIRECTIONS

This review essay is the third of three about comparative urban social policy in poor nations. It is selective in scope and confined to policy in the realms of health, education, and housing. The paper aims to identify key literatures that might interest urbanists in general, and urban geographers, planners, and policy analysts in particular. The first essay outlined emerging issues in the social policy circles of poor countries (Scarpaci, 1993). A second paper that identified strategies and trends in the Third World metropolis followed (Scarpaci, 1995). This final review aims to bring some closure to this series by identifying novel approaches to method and theory that appeared in the literature of the mid-1990s.