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Albania - Urban Growth, Migration and Poverty Reduction : A Poverty Assessment
World Bank - 2012
This sector report claims that in the three years between 2002 and 2005 alone, almost 235,000 people have moved out of poverty in Albania. Strong economic growth and large inflow of remittances are at the center of this impressive achievement. However, low productivity of predominantly small...
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Housing Precarity & the COVID-19 Pandemic : Impacts of Utility Disconnection and Eviction Moratoria on Infections and Deaths Across US Counties
Jowers, Kay; Timmins, Christopher; Bhavsar, Nrupen; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated the adoption of a number of policies that aim to reduce the spread of the disease by promoting housing stability. Housing precarity, which includes both the risk of eviction and utility disconnections or shut-offs, reduces a person's ability to abide by...
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Harnessing Urbanization to End Poverty and Boost Prosperity in Africa
World Bank - 2014
Urbanization is the single most important transformation that the African continent will undergo this century. More … than half of Africa's population will live in its cities by 2040. In the face of rapid urbanization, there is a narrow … through the urbanization process and in some countries, a large number of people reside in rural areas. Rapid urbanization, if …
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Growth, Urbanization and Poverty Reduction in India
Datt, Gaurav - 2016
Longstanding development issues are revisited in the light of our newly-constructed dataset of poverty measures for India spanning 60 years, including 20 years since reforms began in earnest in 1991. We find a downward trend in poverty measures since 1970, with an acceleration post-1991, despite...
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Cities on the move : a World Bank urban transport strategy review
Gwilliam, K. M. (contributor) - World Bank - 2002
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Cities on the Move : A World Bank Urban Transport Strategy Review
World Bank - 2013
The report's objectives are i) to better understand the nature and magnitude of urban transport problems, particularly in respect of the poor, and ii) to articulate a strategy by which the World Bank and other agencies can assist national and city governments to address these problems. The first...
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Slum Clearance and Urban Renewal in the United States
Collins, William J. - 2011
We study the local effects of a federal program that helped cities clear areas for redevelopment, rehabilitate structures, complete city plans, and enforce building codes. We use an instrumental variable strategy to estimate the program's effects on city-level measures of income, property...
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Global Monitoring Report 2009 : A Development Emergency
World Bank - 2009
A Development Emergency: the title of this year's Global Monitoring Report, the sixth in an annual series, could not be more apt. The global economic crisis, the most severe since the Great Depression, is rapidly turning into a human and development crisis. No region is immune. The poor...
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Reaching the Millennium Development Goals : Mauritania should care
Bocchi, Alessandro Magnoli (contributor) - 2008
"Mauritania is a resource-rich developing country. As many other African nations, it will not reach most of the Millennium Development Goals, unless the authorities commit to accelerating progress. To succeed by 2015, the government needs to: mobilize additional financial resources, introduce...
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