Poverty continues to challenge Latin American and Caribbean countries, with approximately one in three people in the … region in poverty and one in seven in extreme poverty. This paper provides up-to-date insights through analysis of who the … are distributed geographically within and across countries, (3) how poverty affects specific groups (e.g., women, children …

that districts with Concessions have higher land value and housing price today. Moreover, Concessions run by countries with …

Over the last two decades, New Zealand experienced a threefold increase in housing prices. The largest surge in prices … in recent years occurred between 1998 and 2007, a period of housing price growth in many developed economies. Since 2007 …, housing price growth remained flat until 2011, and then prices once again embarked on an upward trend. However, recent housing …

consistent with externalities that fall exponentially with distance. In particular, we estimate that housing externalities …

This paper presents evidence that speculative bubbles can have sizeable effects on house prices, and on housing …