Asian cities are seeing growing income inequality, with rural poverty being replaced by urban poverty . Regional studies show high and growing inequality within Indian and Chinese urban areas and decreasing rural-urban income gaps in Thailand and Vietnam . Critically, East Asia and the Asia-Pacific in general continue to house the world's largest population of slum dwellers at 250 million, with most of them in China, Indonesia and the Philippines, and the highest rates of urban poverty in Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Indonesia and the Lao PDR . A lot of urbanisation, especially in South Asia, is also 'hidden' due to poor, competing definitions of what is 'urban' and limited data .
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