In 2016, the World Economic Forum reported that Dharavi in Mumbai, India, was one of the largest slums in the world, with an estimated population count of 1 million. The slum’s informal economy ...

Fifty years later, that swampy area — once a fishing village and rubbish dump — is now Dharavi, one of Asia’s biggest slums and a bustling hub of industry in India’s financial capital.

This makes up 1.2 million people, which is why Moldova ranks sixth on our list of countries with the largest slum population in Europe. Click to continue reading and see the 5 Countries with the ...

Approximately 200 residents in the Soweto West area of Kibera, located in Kenya's capital, are using Bitcoin as part of a project aimed at bringing financial services to one of th ...

Delhi CM Rekha Gupta has proposed studying Mumbai’s Dharavi redevelopment model to address housing needs in over 675 slum clusters across the capital. However, experts warn that Delhi’s scattered ...

MUMBAI – In Dharavi, India’s biggest slum, childcare centre worker Shobha Pravin Patil dreams of a kitchen with a refrigerator, clean water at the turn of a tap, a dining table for sit-down ...

I grew up in Kenya’s Kibera slum, the largest urban slum in Africa, and experienced extreme poverty firsthand. I was a street child, constantly scraping by for food and water, and lacking basic ...

Chandigarh: Hundreds were left homeless after the largest slum in the city, Janta Colony, Sector 25, was demolished here on Tuesday. Since the day the estate office pasted the notice of eviction ...

In this article, we take a look at the 20 countries with the largest slum population in the world. If you would like to skip our detailed analysis, you can directly go to the 5 Countries with the ...

In this article, we take a look at 12 countries with the largest slum population in Europe. If you would like to skip our detailed analysis of European slums, you can directly go to the 5 ...

One of the world’s richest men wants to transform India’s biggest slum. Mumbai, India (CNN) — When Masoom Ali Shaikh arrived in Mumbai in 1974 as a young man from northern India, the patch ...