exceptionally high cost of urban housing. Registration rules prohibit migration to urban centers, and urban housing costs push up … 90 percent of people support lifting all registration restrictions and over 80 percent favor increasing urban housing … construction. The results of the experiment show that reform popularity increases when propiska rules and housing costs are …

tractable urban land-use simulation model that is adapted to developing country cities, where formal and informal housing …' housing and location choices at a distance from various employment subcenters, while accounting at the same time for land …-driven subsidized housing. Designed and calibrated for Cape Town, the model is used to assess the impact of an urban growth boundary and …

Paul Wolfowitz, President of the World Bank, in the development community, the interaction of energy, environment, and … doing business. It is also affecting school attendance, particularly among girls. Inefficient energy sources can also pose … energy-efficient technology to cut greenhouse gas emissions. At the G8 summit in Gleneagles, the World Bank Group was asked …

This paper presents estimates of time-varying income elasticities of demand for energy and metal commodities. The …, estimates for aggregate metals and energy differ by an order of magnitude throughout the income spectrum: from a low of 0.2 for …

Total energy expenditures for the Indian population between 1983 and 2012 are estimated to shed light on the debate … employment surveys are used to estimate the separate components of total energy expenditure related to metabolism and physical … activity levels. Despite a significant drop in adult physical activity levels, total energy expenditures are flat overall …

The erosion of its competitiveness is raising concerns about the sustainability of Bangladesh's growth model based on …

Madagascar's risk of external debt distress is assessed to be moderate, in line with the last debt sustainability …

vulnerabilities declined significantly, and the external risk rating has been upgraded to high. The debt sustainability analysis (DSA …