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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 - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011
This article surveys the problem of urban marginalization by one of its more critical expressions in the contemporary city: the slums. The aim is to define an urban design strategy for the integration of those settlements as part of the city context, which enables to find solutions for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008862801
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A New Way of Monitoring the Quality of Urban Life
Lora, Eduardo; Powell, Andrew - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011
issues of potential importance for urban dwellers. The method combines the so-called ‘hedonic price’ and ‘life satisfaction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008862803
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Subjective Measures of Well-being
Veenhoven, Ruut - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005001324
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Measuring the Quality of Life across Countries: A Sensitivity Analysis of Well-being Indices
Rahman, Tauhidur; Mittelhammer, Ron C.; Wandschneider, … - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005033265
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The prospects for an imminent demographic dividend in Africa: The case for cautious optimism
Basu, Alaka M.; Basu, Kaushik - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014
This paper looks at the prospects of a demographic dividend in Africa in the near future. While acknowledging that the fertility declines which change population age structures and thus dependency ratios have been slow to begin and often seem to have stal
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010766016
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Donor coordination for effective government policies? Implementation of the new aid effectiveness agenda in health and education in Zambia
Leiderer, Stefan - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2013
growth and poverty reduction, but also on intermediate outcomes such as health and education. This paper reviews evidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010663546
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The World Bank.s health projects in Timor-Leste: The political economy of effective aid
Rosser, Andrew; Bremner, Sharna - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2013
The World Bank.s health sector projects in Timor-Leste.the Health Sector Rehabilitation and Development Project and the … Second Health Sector Rehabilitation and Development Project.have been among the few successful operations it has funded in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739517
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Changes in climatic factors and malaria in Uganda
Yawe, Bruno Lule - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014
The study examines the relationship between climatic factors and reported malaria cases using data from 12 districts in Uganda over the period 2000-2011. A panel dataset comprising temperature, temperature standard deviation; minimum humidity; maximum hum
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011076162
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Ethnic heterogeneity and public goods provision in Zambia: Further evidence of a subnational .diversity dividend.
Gisselquist, Rachel M.; Leiderer, Stefan; Nino-Zarazua, … - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014
The hypothesis that ethnic diversity has a negative impact on public goods provision is widely accepted. Notably, most work on this issue fails to distinguish adequately between national versus subnational governance. We find that subnational empirical ev
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011165751
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Health Shocks and the Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality : Evidence from Andhra Pradesh, India
Dhanaraj, Sowmya - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2015
This paper explores the intergenerational effects of parental health shocks using longitudinal data from the Young … Lives project conducted in Andhra Pradesh, India. It is found that health shocks to poorer parents reduce investments in … dimensions like the timing of health shocks and pathways through which they affect human capital investment, differential effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011165754