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Family migration : a vehicle of child morbidity in the informal settlements of Nairobi City, Kenya?

Konseiga, Adama (contributor) - 2008

context of increasing urban poverty in Nairobi, Kenya. The findings indicate that households who migrated together with their … children in the slums of Nairobi experience higher child morbidity (43 per cent have at least one sick child in the last one … ; incidental truncation ; informal settlements ; Nairobi ; Kenya …

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Legal status and deprivation in India's urban slums : an analysis of two decades of national sample survey data

Nolan, Laura B.; Bloom, David E.; Subbaraman, Ramnath - 2017

In India, 52-98 million people live in urban slums, and 59% of slums are "non-notified" or lack legal recognition by the government. In this paper, we use data on 2,901 slums from four waves of the National Sample Survey (NSS) spanning almost 20 years to test the hypothesis that non-notified...

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Planning ahead for better neighborhoods : long run evidence from Tanzania

Michaels, Guy; Nigmatulina, Dzhamilya; Rauch, Ferdinand; … - 2017

What are the long run consequences of planning and providing basic infrastructure in neighborhoods, where people build their own homes? We study "Sites and Services" projects implemented in seven Tanzanian cities during the 1970s and 1980s, half of which provided infrastructure in previously...

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Under-savers anonymous : evidence on self-help groups and peer pressure as a savings commitment device

Kast, Felipe; Meier, Stephan; Pomeranz, Dina - 2012

While commitment devices such as defaults and direct deposits from wages have been found to be highly effective to increase savings, they are unavailable to the millions of people worldwide who not have a formal wage bill. Self-help peer groups are an alternative commitment device that is...

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Reforming the financial incentives of the welfare system

Card, David E. - 2000

This paper summarizes the findings from the Self Sufficiency Project: a large scale social experiment that is being conducted in Canada to evaluate the effect of high-powered financial incentives for full time work among former welfare recipients. The experimental results confirm the importance...

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Surviving unemployment without state support : unemployment and household formation in South Africa

Klasen, Stephan; Woolard, Ingrid - 2000

High unemployment in many OECD countries is often attributed, at least in part, to the generosity and long duration of unemployment compensation. It is therefore instructive to examine a country where high unemployment exists despite the near complete absence of an unemployment insurance system....

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Measuring women's empowerment in Rwanda

Musonera, Abdou; Heshmati, Almas - 2016

This study examines the determinants of women's empowerment in Rwanda using data obtained from DHS 2010. A regression analysis is used to investigate the association between women's empowerment and its covariates. The study also uses a multinomial logistic regression to assess what determines...

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A theory of efficiency wage with multiple unemployment equilibria : how a higher minimum wage law can curb unemployment

Basu, Kaushik (contributor); Felkey, Amanda J. (contributor) - 2008

This paper uses efficiency wage theory and the existence of community-based sharing to hypothesize that labor markets in developing countries have multiple equilibria - the same economy can be stuck at different levels of unemployment with different levels of wages. The model is meant for...

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Can women's self-help groups contribute to sustainable development? : evidence of capability changes from Northern India

Anand, Paul; Saxena, Swati; Gonzales Martinez, Rolando; … - 2020

This paper offers an evaluation of a supported women's self help program with over 1.5 million participants in one of the poorest rural regions of the world (Uttar Pradesh, India). Methodologically, it shows how indicators from the direct capability measurement literature can be adapted for...

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The city as a self-help book : the psychology of urban promises

Cardoso, Rodrigo V.; Meijers, Evert J.; Ham, Maarten van; … - 2017

Despite the many negative aspects of life in cities, urban promises of economic prosperity, freedom and happiness have fuelled the imagination of generations of migrants, who have flocked to cities in search of a better life, invariably exaggerating the opportunities and neglected the potential...

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