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The face of urban poverty : explaining the prevalence of slums in developing countries

Arimah, Ben C. - 2010

proliferation of slums. While attention has focused on the rapid pace of urbanization as the sole or major factor explaining the … proliferation of slums and squatter settlements in developing countries, there are other factors whose impacts are not known with …. This paper accounts for differences in the prevalence of slums among developing countries using data drawn from the recent …

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Parsing the urban poverty puzzle : a multi-generational panel study in Rio de Janeiro's favelas, 1968 - 2008

Perlman, Janice E. - 2010

. -- urbanization ; Brazil ; poverty ; community ; slums … Janeiro from 1968 to 2008. Major political transformations took place in Brazil during this interval: from dictatorship to …

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Significance of public space in the fragmented city : designing strategies for urban opportunities in informal settlements of Buenos Aires city

Janches, Flavio - 2011

city: the slums. The aim is to define an urban design strategy for the integration of those settlements as part of the city …

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Cocaine cities : exploring the relationship between urban processes and the drug trade in South America

Navarro, Ignacio A. - 2011

The relationship between the cocaine trade and urban land markets in South America has been overlooked by the mainstream economics and urban studies literature. This paper examines two avenues through which the cocaine trade can have a large impact on urban development in producer countries: (i)...

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Lofty pine and clinging vine : the educational 'Great Gatsby Curve' and the role of house prices

You, Jing; Ding, Xinxin; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; Wang, … - 2015

We investigate the heterogeneous and nonlinear intergenerational transmission channels of education and the impact on this of house price appreciation. Using the China Household Finance Survey 2011, we construct household history of property purchases and educational investment over the past 16...

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Evaluating rural roads programmes : a general equilibrium analysis

Bell, Clive - 2023

The structure employed is a small open economy, with one city and a rural hinterland, two traded goods, a transport sector, two specific factors, and mobile labour. A socially profitable programme will promote not only internal, but also external trade. Theory and numerical examples indicate...

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Solid wastes, poverty and the environment in developing country cities : challenges and opportunities

Medina, Martin - 2010

-income communities and slums lack appropriate waste management services. Given the rapid population growth and urbanization in many …

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Infrastructure and city competitiveness in India

Lall, Somik V.; Wang, Hyoung Gun; Deichmann, Uwe - 2010

Do local improvements in infrastructure provision improve city competitiveness? What public finance mechanisms stimulate local infrastructure supply? And how do local efforts compare with national decisions of placing inter-regional trunk infrastructure? In this paper, we examine how the...

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Dar es Salaam as a 'harbour of peace' in East Africa : tracing the role of creolized urban ethnicity in nation-state formation

Bryceson, Deborah Fahy - 2010

Dar es Salaam is exceptional in East Africa for having a record of relatively little ethnic tension, and remaining tranquil and true to its name, the 'harbour of peace'. This paper explores the interface between ethnic and national identities in Tanzania's capital city, focusing on its ethnic...

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Violent urbanization and homogenization of space and place : reconstructing the story of sectarian violence in Beirut

Yassin, Nasser - 2010

This paper aims at understanding the dynamics of sectarian violence in the city of Beirut, by looking at the early phase of violence in the Lebanese civil war (1975-90), and the process of dividing Beirut into various sectarian enclaves controlled by the warring militias. The paper aims to show...

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