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Informal settlement 336 Informelle Siedlung 336 Slum 165 Indien 90 India 82 Städtische Armut 59 Urban poverty 57 Entwicklungsländer 54 Urbanisierung 41 Armut 40 Urbanization 35 Stadtentwicklung 34 Urban renewal 34 Developing countries 33 Stadterneuerung 33 Urban development 32 Poverty 31 slum 26 Impact assessment 21 Nairobi 21 Wirkungsanalyse 21 Wohnungspolitik 21 Bombay 20 Brasilien 18 Brazil 18 Housing policy 18 Kenia 18 Landflucht 18 Städtischer Wohnungsmarkt 18 USA 17 Urban housing market 17 Kenya 16 Residential location 15 Wohnstandort 15 Housing market 14 Wohnungsmarkt 14 Informal economy 13 Informelle Wirtschaft 13 Stadt 13 Bangkok 12
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Book / Working Paper 304 Article 212 Journal 1
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Article in journal 151 Aufsatz in Zeitschriften 151 Graue Literatur 106 Non-commercial literature 106 Working Paper 76 Arbeitspapier 70 Article in book 26 Aufsatz im Buch 26 Collection of articles of several authors 17 Sammelwerk 17 Dissertation 12 Thesis 12 Amtsdruckschrift 11 Government document 11 Case study 10 Fallstudie 10 Hochschulschrift 10 Dissertation u.a. Prüfungsschriften 6 Statistics 5 Statistik 5 Bibliographie enthalten 4 Bibliography included 4 Congress report 4 Kongressschrift 4 Konferenzschrift 3 Collection of articles written by one author 2 Nachschlagewerk 2 Sammlung 2 reference book 2 Aufsatzsammlung 1 Bibliographie 1 CD-ROM 1 Conference Paper 1 Elektronischer Datenträger 1 Glossar enthalten 1 Glossary included 1 Kongress 1 Mikroform 1 Personenfestschrift 1 Publication in honor of a person 1
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English 355 Undetermined 87 German 51 French 14 Spanish 6 Portuguese 3 Bengali 1 Croatian 1 Dutch 1
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Banerjee, Abhijit V. 9 Duflo, Esther 9 Galiani, Sebastián 9 Mitra, Arup 8 Field, Erica Marie 7 Glennerster, Rachel 6 Maitra, Chandana 6 Barnhardt, Sharon 5 Günther, Isabel 5 Harttgen, Kenneth 5 Kinnan, Cynthia 5 Pande, Rohini 5 Prasada Rao, D. S. 5 Seira, Enrique 5 Tsujita, Yuko 5 Ajzenman, Nicolas 4 Bronger, Dirk 4 Gilbert, Alan 4 Gulyani, Sumila 4 Henderson, J.Vernon 4 Anderson, Siwan 3 Becchetti, Leonardo 3 Cole, Shawn A. 3 Conzo, Pierluigi 3 Dagdeviren, Hulya 3 Daniere, Amrita Genevieve 3 Dehejia, Rajeev H. 3 Janches, Flavio 3 Lall, Somik V. 3 Linden, Leigh L. 3 Montgomery, Heather 3 Robertson, Simon A. 3 Selod, Harris 3 Swaminathan, Madhura 3 Takahashi, Lois M. 3 Talukdar, Debabrata 3 Thorbek, Susanne 3 Wetter, Manfred 3 Augel, Johannes 2 Baland, Jean-Marie 2
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International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations 5 Centre for Human Settlements 4 Bangladesch / Parisaṅkhyāna Byuro 3 eSocialSciences 3 UN-Habitat 2 Ad Hoc Expert Group Meeting on Appropriate Infrastructure Services, Standards and Technologies for Upgrading Slums and Squatter Areas and Rural Settlements <1981, Nairobi> 1 Ad Hoc Meeting of Experts on a Training Programme for the Improvement of Slums and Squatter Areas in Urban and Rural Communities <1978, Enschede> 1 Bharat Sevak Samaj <Delhi> 1 Cape Town / Technical Management Services 1 Conference on Human Settlements <1, 1976, Vancouver, British Columbia> 1 Courant Research Centre PEG 1 Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit <Eschborn> / Abteilung Umweltmanagement, Wasser, Energie, Transport 1 Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung / Abteilung Arbeit und Sozialpolitik 1 Fórum Nacional <24, 2012, Rio de Janeiro> 1 Fórum Nacional <25., 2013, Rio de Janeiro> 1 Geographisches Institut <Basel> / Abteilung Humangeographie, Stadt- und Regionalforschung 1 Indien 1 Indien / Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner 1 Indien / Social Studies Division 1 Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) 1 Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas <Quito, Universidad Central del Ecuador> 1 International Council on Social Welfare, Bombay 1 International Federation for Housing and Town Planning 1 London School of Economics (LSE) 1 Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (CEPS/INSTEAD) 1 National Sample Survey Organisation 1 Nehru Memorial Museum and Library <Delhi> 1 Nijmeegs Instituut voor Comparatieve Cultuur- en Ontwikkelingsstudies 1 Orissa / Bureau of Statistics and Economics 1 Population Foundation of India 1 Program in Urban and Regional Studies, Cornell University 1 Südafrika / Statistics 1 UNIDO / Studies and Research Division / Sectoral Studies Branch 1 Unidad Conjunta CEPAL CNUAH de Asentamientos Humanos 1 United Nations 1 Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für Entwicklungsländer 1 Weltbank 1 World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU/WIDER), United Nations University 1
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Policy research working paper : WPS 10 Working paper 10 Regional development dialogue : RDD : an international journal focusing on Third World development problems 9 World development : the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development 9 Marginalsiedlungen in Megastädten Asiens 7 Revue tiers monde 6 Working paper / World Institute for Development Economics Research 6 Discussion paper / Centre for Economic Policy Research 5 Geographische Rundschau 5 ILO Working Papers 5 School of Economics discussion papers series 5 IDE discussion papers 4 Journal of development economics 4 Journal of urban economics 4 Sozialwissenschaftliche Studien zu internationalen Problemen : SSIP 4 The journal of development studies : JDS 4 American economic journal : a journal of the American Economic Association 3 Journal of international development 3 Review of urban & regional development studies : journal of the Applied Regional Science Conference 3 The Indian journal of labour economics : a quarterly journal of Indian Society of Labour Economics 3 Working Papers / eSocialSciences 3 Autrement / Série monde 2 Courant Research Centre: Poverty, Equity and Growth - Discussion Papers 2 Development policy review 2 Discussion paper / Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research 2 Documentos de trabajo / Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales 2 Economica 2 Housing policy debate 2 Indian economic review : biannual journal of the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi 2 Informationen zur Raumentwicklung : IzR 2 International journal of social economics 2 International journal of urban and regional research 2 Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 2 Journal of the Institute of Town Planners, India 2 Le logement des pauvres dans les grandes villes du Tiers Monde 2 Margin: the journal of applied economic research 2 Nijmegen studies in development and cultural change 2 Pakistan journal of applied economics 2 Proceedings of the German Development Economics Conference, Berlin 2011 2 Revista mexicana de sociología : RMS 2
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ECONIS (ZBW) 403 USB Cologne (EcoSocSci) 86 RePEc 21 EconStor 7
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Public policies in dangerous places : the Unified Educational Centers (CEU) in the city of São Paulo
Carvalho, Rômullo; Lee, Marcos Ki Hyung - 2017
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Cities, slums, and early child growth : empirical evidence from Bangladesh
Raju, Dhushyanth; Kim, Kyoung Yang; Quynh Thu Nguyen; … - 2017
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Peer effects in the demand for property rights : experimental evidence from urban Tanzania
Collin, Matthew - 2017
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Building the city : sunk capital, sequencing and institutional frictions
Henderson, J.Vernon; Regan, Tanner; Venables, Anthony - 2016
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A qomparative study of living conditions in slums of three metro cities in India
Bag, Sugata; Seth, Suman; Gupta, Anish - 2016
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Unintended consequences of rewards for student attendance : results from a field experiment in Indian classrooms
Visaria, Sujata; Dehejia, Rajeev H.; Chao, Melody M.; … - 2016
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The deregularization of land titles
Galiani, Sebastián; Schargrodsky, Ernesto - 2016
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Of cities and slums
Ferreira, Pedro Cavalcanti; Monge-Naranjo, Alexander; … - 2016
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Impact of climate change and aquatic salinization on mangrove species and poor communities in the Bangladesh Sundarbans
Dasgupta, Susmita; Sobhan, Istiak; Wheeler, David - 2016
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The role of informal jobs in relieving informal settlement (case study: Hesaramir of Pakdasht)
Salarvandiyan, Fatemeh; Hosseini, Ali; Habibi, Leyla; … - In: Journal of urban economics and management : a quarterly … 4 (2016) 14, pp. 137-153
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Income poor or calorie poor? : who should get the subsidy?
Maitra, Chandana; Shankar, Sriram; Prasada Rao, D. S. - 2016
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Extent of child labour in Jahangir-Puri : a slum area of Delhi
Atri, Neha; Pandey, Rajneesh - In: International journal of trends in economics, … 5 (2016) 6, pp. 1-9
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Dangers of decentralisation in urban slums : a comparative study of water supply and drainage service delivery in Kolkata, India
De, Indranil; Nag, Tirthankar - In: Development policy review 34 (2016) 2, pp. 253-276
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International housing policy for the urban poor and the informal city in the global south : a non-diachronic review
Chiodelli, Francesco - In: Journal of international development 28 (2016) 5, pp. 788-807
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The half-life of happiness : hedonic adaptation in the subjective well-being of poor slum dwellers to a large improvement in housing
Galiani, Sebastián; Gertler, Paul J.; Undurraga, Raimundo - 2015
A fundamental question in economics is whether happiness increases pari passu with improvements in material conditions or whether humans grow accustomed to better conditions over time. We rely on a large-scale experiment to examine what kind of impact the provision of housing to extremely poor...
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Designing the "informal" - spatial design strategies for the emerging urbanization around water bodies in Ethiopia
Mamo, Zegeye Cherenet - 2015 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Risky environments, hidden knowledge, and preferences for contract flexibility : an artefactual field experiment
Kunte, Sebastian; Wollni, Meike - 2015
Contract flexibility can be expedient for economic exchange in environments with high ambiguity and risk, but may also encourage opportunistic behavior. We run a modified investment game, including the choice between two different contract designs and asymmetric information about the realized...
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Tenure security premium in informal housing markets : a spatial hedonic analysis
Nakamura, Shohei - 2015
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Moving to opportunity or isolation? : Network effects of a randomized housing lottery in urban India
Barnhardt, Sharon; Field, Erica Marie; Pande, Rohini - 2015
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Contractual relationships in the absence of formal enforcement : experimental evidence from Germany and Kenya
Kunte, Sebastian - 2015
This dissertation consists of three experimental studies that aim at contributing to a better understanding of behavior within contractual relationships—in particular, if information asymmetries, incentive issues and a lack of formal institutions make exchange more difficult and risky....
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Migration of labour in India : the squatter settlements of Delhi
Ratnoo, Himmat Singh - 2017
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Building twenty million homes : housing for all
Jain, Ashok K. - 2017 - First edition
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Moving to opportunity or isolation? : network effects of a randomized housing lottery in urban India
Barnhardt, Sharon; Field, Erica Marie; Pande, Rohini - In: American economic journal : a journal of the American … 9 (2017) 1, pp. 1-32
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Urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa and the challenge of access to basic services
Parienté, William - In: Journal of demographic economics : JODE 83 (2017) 1, pp. 31-39
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Toilet access among the urban poor : challenges and concerns in Bengaluru City slums
Manasi, S.; Latha, N. - 2017
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Food insecurity in informal settlements in Lilongwe, Malawi
Chilanga, Emmanuel; Riley, Liam; Ngwira, Juliana; … - 2017
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Drug battles and school achievement : evidence from Rio de Janeiro's favelas
Monteiro, Joana; Rocha, Rudi - In: The review of economics and statistics 99 (2017) 2, pp. 213-228
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Malthus living in a slum : urban concentration, infrastructures and economic growth
Castells-Quintana, David - 2014 - (Preliminary version)
Today more than half of the 7 billion inhabitants of the planet live in urban areas, with this share expected to keep rising. Whereas in developed countries urbanisation has been a long and slow process, in developing countries this process is now characterised by a really fast pace and a high...
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An empirical investigation into measurement and determinants of food security in slums of Kolkata
Maitra, Chandana; Prasada Rao, D. S. - 2014
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Going beyond calories : looking at experiental food insecurity in urban slum households in Kolkata
Maitra, Chandana - 2014
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Moving to opportunity or isolation? : network effects of a slum relocation program in India
Barnhardt, Sharon; Field, Erica Marie; Pande, Rohini - 2014
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On the distributive costs of drug-related homicides
Ajzenman, Nicolas; Galiani, Sebastián; Seira, Enrique - 2014
Reliable estimates of the effects of violence on economic outcomes are scarce. We exploit the manyfold increase in homicides in 2008-2011 in Mexico resulting from its war on organized drug traffickers to estimate the effect of drug-related homicides on house prices. We use an unusually rich...
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On the distributive costs of drug-related homicides
Ajzenman, Nicolas; Galiani, Sebastián; Seira, Enrique - 2014
There are few reliable estimates of the effects of violence on economic outcomes. This study exploits the manifold increase in homicides in 2008-2011 in Mexico resulting from its war on organized drug traffickers to estimate the effect of drug- related homicides on housing prices. Using an...
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Reservation wage of female volunteer community health workers in Dhaka urban slums : a bidding game approach
Alam, Khurshid; Tasneem, Sakiba; Huq, Molla - In: Health economics review 4 (2014) 16, pp. 1-10
Background: BRAC, a large Bangladeshi NGO, recently has been using female volunteer community health workers (CHWs) in Dhaka urban slums to provide maternal and child health services. Due to erratic performance-based income and higher opportunity cost the urban CHWs lose motivation which...
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The cost of misguided urbanization : the case of informal settlements in Butuan City, Philippines
Navarro, Ma. Kresna D.; Almaden, Catherine Roween C. - 2014
The informal settlements in Butuan City, Philippines pose the intractable problem of housing and providing services for the urban poor. They exact tremendous costs to government infrastructure projects and the city as a whole. In this study, these costs are accounted for, particularly the costs...
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Poverty-Food security nexus : evidences from a survey of urban slum dwellers in Kolkata
Maitra, Chandana; Prasada Rao, D. S. - 2014 - [Rev. Ed.]
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Poverty-Food security nexus : evidences from a survey of urban slum dwellers in Kolkata
Maitra, Chandana; Prasada Rao, D. S. - 2014
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On the distributed costs of drug-related homicides
Ajzenman, Nicolas; Galiani, Sebastián; Seira, Enrique - 2014
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Deadly cities? : a note on spatial inequalities in mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa
Günther, Isabel; Harttgen, Kenneth - 2010
In this paper we analyze if an `urban mortality penalty' exists for today's developing countries, repeating the history of industrialized nations during the 19th century. We analyze the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) of 19 Sub-Saharan African countries for differences in child and adult...
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Slums : how informal real estate markets work
Birch, Eugenie L. (ed.); Chattaraj, Shahana (ed.);  … - 2016
Urban governance and development of informality in China and India / Arthur Acolin, Shahana Chattaraj, and Susan M. Wachter -- Comparative evidence on urban land-use regulation bureaucracy in developing countries / Paavo Monkkonen and Lucas Ronconi -- Urban land titling : lessons from a natural...
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Building the city : sunk capital, sequencing, and institutional frictions
Henderson, J.Vernon; Regan, Tanner; Venables, Anthony - 2016
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Economics of urban externalities : analysis of squatter settlements in Kathmandu and Quito
Adhikari, Shiva Raj - 2016
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Social capital dynamics and collective action : the role of subjective satisfaction in a common pool resource experiment
Becchetti, Leonardo; Castriota, Stefano; Conzo, Pierluigi - In: Environment and development economics 21 (2016) 4, pp. 512-531
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Deprivation in slums and child poverty : study on Kolkata
De, Indranil; Nag, Tirthankar - In: International journal of social economics 43 (2016) 7, pp. 739-759
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Dimensions and determinants of morbidity : evidence from slums of Chandigarh
Kumar, Sumit - In: Journal of international development 28 (2016) 6, pp. 845-856
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Urban land management and its discontents : a case study of the Swaziland Urban Development Project (SUDP)
Simelane, Hloniphile - In: The journal of development studies : JDS 52 (2016) 6, pp. 797-812
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Defying NGO-ization? : lessons in livelihood resilience observed among involuntarily displaced women in Mumbai, India
Ramanath, Ramya - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 84 (2016), pp. 1-17
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Südafrika / Statistics - Pretoria : Statistics South Africa - 2001/11 [?]-
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Ultra poor and asset transfer in urban setting : evidence from slums in Bangladesh
Ara, Jinnat; Hossain, Nusrat Zaitun; Das, Narayan Chandra; … - In: Journal of international development 28 (2016) 8, pp. 1235-1250
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Living with HIV post-diagnosis: a qualitative study of the experiences of Nairobi slum residents
Wekesa, Eliud; Coast, Ernestina - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
Objectives: To characterise the experiences of heterosexual men and women living with HIV post-diagnosis and explain these experiences in relation to their identity and sexuality. Design: Qualitative study using in-depth interviews and theoretically informed biographic disruption theory....
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