"Slum upgrading programs are being used by national and city governments in many countries to improve the welfare of … households living in slum and squatter settlements. These programs typically include a combination of improvements in … model to compare the effectiveness of alternative slum upgrading instruments in a second-best setting with distortions in …

"The authors compare the welfare effects of in situ slum upgrading programs with programs that provide slum dwellers … with better housing in a new location. Evaluating the welfare effects of slum upgrading and resettlement programs requires … neighborhoods in which new housing is located. To illustrate this point the authors consider a realistic slum upgrading program that …

"Strategies to help the one billion people worldwide who live in informal settlements have mainly focused on slum … upgrading, sites and services programs, and tenure security. In contrast, there has been less attention on what enables slum … social stigma. In this paper the authors investigate residential mobility among slum dwellers in Bhopal, India. Their …

This report aims to extract lessons on slum upgrading and involuntary resettlement policies and practices learned from … complex and rich case study from which to extract lessons on involuntary resettlement, land, housing and slum upgrading, as … areas of slum upgrading, involuntary resettlement, land and housing …

an evidence-informed response to the challenges of existing and future slum settlements. To that end, the note discusses …