Kumar, Sunil
Dr Sunil Kumar
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Experience keywords:
NGO; construction labour; comparative urban housing policies; developing countries; urban politics; urban poverty; social policy; South Asia; low income housing processes; skills development; human settlement planning; Sub-Saharan Africa; participation; low income private landlords; human settlement development; social development; social housing
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My key research interests are related to urban poverty and urban housing in South Asia. I am also interested in the informal and formal institutions that act as an interface between these two aspects. Most recent expertise relates to housing tenure in India.
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Countries and regions to which research relates:
South Asia; Asia; Sub-Sarahan Africa
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Languages: Hindi [Spoken: Intermediate, Written: Intermediate]
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Media experience:
Radio; TV
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The following references are sourced from LSE Research Online|. References that are linked lead to the full text.
Padel, Ruth and Kumar, Sunil and Broadbent, Stefana (2012) The Forum: what does home means to us? BBC World Service Kumar, Sunil (2011) The research-policy dialectic: a critical reflection on the virility of landlord-tenant research and the impotence of housing policy formulation in the urban Global South. City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action, 16 (5). pp. 662-673. ISSN 1360-4813 Kumar, Sunil (2010) Gender, livelihoods and rental housing markets in the Global South: the urban poor as landlords and tenants. In: Chant, Sylvia, (ed.) The International handbook of gender and poverty: concepts, research and policy. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, UK, pp. 367-372. ISBN 9781848443341 Kumar, Sunil (2010) Savings and loan associations. In: Anheier, Helmut K. and Toepler, Stefan, (eds.) International encyclopedia of civil society. Springer, New York, USA, pp. 1346-1349. ISBN 9780387939964 Kumar, Sunil (2008) Global housing policy shifts. In: Yeates, Nicola, (ed.) Understanding global social policy. Policy Press, pp. 179-205. ISBN 9781861349446 Kumar, Sunil (2008) Urban housing policy and practice in the developing world. In: Colby, Ira C. and Sowers, Karen and Dulmus, Catherine N., (eds.) Comprehensive handbook of social work and social welfare: social policy and policy practice . Wiley, New Jersey, USA, pp. 249-294. ISBN 9780471769989 Kumar, Sunil (2005) Room for manoeuvre: tenure and the urban poor in India. In: Hamdi, Nabeel and Handal, Jane, (eds.) Urban futures: economic growth and poverty reduction. Intermediate Technology Development Group, London, UK, pp. 109-124. ISBN 1853395994 Kumar, Sunil (2002) Round pegs and square holes: mismatches between poverty and housing policy in urban India. In: Townsend, Peter and Gordon, David, (eds.) World poverty: new policies to defeat an old enemy. The Policy Press, London, pp. 271-296. ISBN 9781861343956 Kumar, Sunil (2001) Embedded tenures: private renting and housing policy in Surat, India. Housing studies, 16 (4). pp. 425-442. ISSN 0267-3037
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