Urban Informality, Poverty and Politics: A case of Dhaka City

Abstract

Urbanization is one of the inevitable feature in the process of development, but rapid expansion of the urban process in Dhaka city has brought with it incredible transformation of lifestyle. Quality of urban life in Dhaka has become major aspect of urban political economy. This study aims to explain the situation of informal sector’s worker’s life condition; explore the relation with the creation of slum because of the rising of informal sector and there poverty condition. Most of them settle in slum where extreme poverty exists. They have lack of access to fundamental social serviceand they are being used by political leader. This study tries to explore the relationship among them. The study has been conducted in Dhaka city which is experiencing rapid urbanization and informalization in recent decades. The study is based on both qualitative and quantitative methodologies. Urban ethnography has been used to conducted informal activities.