Nadalin, Vanessa Gapriotti; Mation, Lucas Ferreira - 2018
Despite being home to about 1 billion people (UN-Habitat, 2010) worldwide slums have received little attention in the … economic literature. Data on slums is scarce and few studies have investigated the emergence of these pockets of poverty and … combining Census, terrain topography and water bodies data for Brazil. Thus, we provide the first consistent estimates on …