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Assessing Benefits of Slum Upgrading Programs in Second-Best Settings

Lall, Somik V.; Dāśagupta, Bāsaba - 2012

Slum upgrading programs are being used by national and city governments in many countries to improve the welfare of households living in slum and squatter settlements. These programs typically include a combination of improvements in neighborhood infrastructure, land tenure, and building...

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Financing Municipal Water and Sanitation Services in Nairobi's Informal Settlements

Coville, Aidan; Galiani, Sebastian; Gertler, Paul; … - 2021

This study estimates the impacts of two interventions implemented as field experiments in informal settlements by Nairobi's water and sanitation utility to improve revenue collection efficiency and last mile connection loan repayment: (i) face-to-face engagement between utility staff and...

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Peer Effects in the Demand for Property Rights : Experimental Evidence from Urban Tanzania

Collin, Matthew - 2017

This paper investigates the presence of endogenous peer effects in the adoption of formal property rights. Using data from a unique land titling experiment held in an unplanned settlement in Dar es Salaam, the analysis finds a strong, positive impact of neighbor adoption on the household's...

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Cities, Slums, and Early Child Growth : Empirical Evidence from Bangladesh

Govindaraj, Ramesh; Kim, Kyoung Yang; Nguyen, Quynh T.; … - 2017

This study uses novel household survey data that are representative of Bangladesh's large cities, and of slum and nonslum areas within the cities, to investigate the effects of demographic and socioeconomic factors on early child growth in 2013. The study also decomposes the difference in mean...

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Ahmedabad : More but Different Government for ???Slum Free??? and Livable Cities

Annez, Patricia Clarke; Bertaud, Alain; Bertaud, Marie-Agnes - 2013

improving the living conditions of the large population living in slums. The paper combines census data, the National Sample …

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The Welfare Effects of Slum Improvement Programs : The Case of Mumbai

Takeuchi, Akie; Cropper, Maureen L.; Bento, Antonio - 2012

,000 households in Mumbai, a city in which 40 percent of the population live in slums. The precise welfare effects of resettlement …

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Governance in the Gullies : Democratic Responsiveness and Leadership in Delhi???s Slums

Jha, Saumitra; Rao, Vijayendra; Woolcock, Michael - 2012

in Delhi's slums, examining the processes by which residents gain access to formal government and develop their own … informal modes of leadership. While ethnically homogeneous slums transplant rural institutions to the city, newer and … ethnically diverse slums depend on informal leaders who gain their authority through political connections, education, and …

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Household Savings and Residential Mobility in Informal Settlements

Lall, Somik V.; Suri, Ajay; Deichmann, Uwe - 2012

Strategies to help the one billion people worldwide who live in informal settlements have mainly focused on slum upgrading, sites and services programs, and tenure security. In contrast, there has been less attention on what enables slum dwellers to transition into the formal housing sector,...

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Rental Regulation and its Consequences on Measures of Well-Being in the Arab Republic of Egypt

Ibarra, Gabriel Lara; Mendiratta, Vibhuti; Vishwanath, Tara - 2017

The paper delves into the implications of a failure to account for rental regulation in the measurement of households' welfare, poverty, and inequality when using household surveys. Exploiting previously unavailable data for the Egyptian case, the paper illustrates the long-lasting distortions...

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Housing Consumption and Urbanization

Lozano-Gracia, Nancy; Young, Cheryl - 2014

Rapid urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa places immense pressure on urban services to meet the needs of the burgeoning urban population. Although several country- or city-level reports offer insight into the housing challenges of specific places, little is known about regional patterns affecting...

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