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Reimagining India's urban future : a framework for securing high-growth, low-carbon, climate-resilient urban development in India

Tewari, Meenu; Aziz, Zeba; Cook, Mitchell; Goldar, Amrita; … - 2015

India is at the cusp of a major urban transition. In less than twenty years, India's urban population is expected to nearly double from 377 million today to over 600 million. Indian cities already contribute an estimated two-thirds of India's GDP, and this number is expected to rise to 75% by...

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Does public investment contribute to increasing institutional and interpersonal trust? : place-based policies for sports and cultural activities in Cali, Colombia

Martínez, Lina María; Sayago, Juan Tomás - 2021

This paper studies the effect of two place-based policies implemented in Cali, Colombia on social capital and trust. We use the CaliBRANDO survey to account for institutional and interpersonal trust, matching neighborhood of residence and where policies are applied. We set up a...

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Chasing the smokestack : strategic policymaking with multiple instruments

Fredriksson, Per; List, John A.; Millimet, Daniel L. - 2002

Recent studies suggest a considerable amount of horizontal strategic interaction amongst governments exists. The empirical approach in these studies typically relies on estimating reaction functions in a uni-dimensional policy framework, where a nonzero slope estimate suggests strategic...

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Strategic immigration policies and welfare in heterogeneous countries

Fujita, Masahisa; Weber, Shlomo - 2004

In this paper we consider a model with two industrialised countries and immigrants that come from the rest of the world . The countries are distinguished on the basis of three parameters: population size, bias towards immigrants, and production complementarity between native population and...

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Assessing the effects of eclimate and socioeconomic factors on vulnerability to vector-borne diseases in Latin America

García Ayala, Rodrigo; Estrugo, Andrés - 2014

, this paper presents and tests an approach to estimating the effects of epidemic outbreaks on health vulnerability. The … online platform, the paper finds that climate has nonnegligible effects on health vulnerability. The evidence found and the … vulnerability index constructed can be used to analyze the main determinants of vulnerability in order to address policy concerns. …

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Multidimensional disadvantage and wellbeing

Riggs, Lynn - 2023

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On the use of spectral value decomposition for the construction of composite indices

Farnia, Luca - 2019

High dimensional composite index makes experts' preferences in setting weights a hard task. In the literature, one of the approaches to derive weights from a data set is Principal Component or Factor Analysis that, although conceptually different, they are similar in results when FA is based on...

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Exploring stability in travel attitudes : evidence from a repeated crosssectional study in Sydney, Australia

Van Acker, Veronique; Mulley, Corinne - 2023

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United in diversity? : an empirical investigation on Europe's regional social capital

Braeseman, Fabian; Stephany, Fabian - 2017

Aiming to explain the European divide with respect to social and political values, scholars in the past have relied on a simplified four- (or even two-) dimensional regime model which tranches the continent according to the social capacities of its inhabitants. This "cartography" of "Social...

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Is disaster risk reduction spending driven by the occurrence of natural disasters? : evidence from Peru

Miller, Sebastián; Vela, Mauricio A. - 2014

index of historical physical impacts of natural disasters, social vulnerability, and institutional capacity was created. It … vulnerability is a main determinant of the distribution of prevention spending but conditioned on being affected by climatological …

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