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Moral hazard vs. land scarcity : flood management policies for the real world
Avner, Paolo; Hallegatte, Stéphane - 2019
This paper investigates the costs and benefits of three ex ante flood management strategies - risk-based insurance, zoning, and subsidized insurance - in an urban economics framework that takes land scarcity into account. In a theoretical setting and in the absence of market failures, risk-based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114423
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Addis Ababa Urban and Metropolitan Transport and Land Use Linkages Strategy Review
World Bank - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012248402
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Jobs and Land Use within Cities : A Survey of Theory, Evidence, and Policy
Goswami, Arti Grover - 2015
Over the last century, the urban spatial structure of cities has transformed dramatically from the traditional monocentric configuration to varying forms of decentralized organization. This paper reviews the theory and empirical evidence to understand the urban morphology of jobs and land use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012245631
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Reshaping Urbanization in Rwanda : Urbanization and the Evolution of Rwanda's Urban Landscape
World Bank Group - 2017
The objective of this report is to inform the government's policies and strategies on urbanization as a driver of … economic development, job creation, and poverty reduction. Note 1 examines Rwanda's urbanization process since 2002 by …'s urbanization process. In the first part, it lays out the overall trends in Rwanda's levels of urbanization and the primary trends …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644965
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Mexico Urbanization Review : Managing Spatial Growth for Productive and Livable Cities in Mexico
Kim, Yoonhee - 2016 - Online-Ausg.
services, infrastructure, and access to employment. Mexico Urbanization Review: Managing Spatial Growth for Productive and … capture the positive gains associated with urbanization. To this end, the authors analyze the development patterns of the 100 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012245283
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Assessing urban policies using a simulation model with formal and informal housing : application to Cape Town, South Africa
Coville, Aidan; Di Maro, Vincenzo; Dunsch, Felipe Alexander - 2019
Building on a two-dimensional discrete version of the standard urban economics land-use model, this paper presents a tractable urban land-use simulation model that is adapted to developing country cities, where formal and informal housing submarkets coexist. The dynamic closed-city framework...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059003
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Trust or property rights? : can trusted relationships substitute for costly land registration in West African cities?
Letrouit, Lucie; Selod, Harris - 2020
The paper studies the market failures associated with land tenure insecurity and information asymmetry in an urban land use model, and analyzes households' responses to mitigate tenure insecurity. When buyers and sellers of land plots can pair along trusted kinship lines whereby deception (the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012257287
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Matchmaking in Nairobi : The Role of Land Use
Avner, Paolo - 2016
Well-functioning cities reduce the economic distance between people and economic opportunities. Cities thrive because they enable matchmaking-among people, among firms, and between people and job opportunities. This paper examines employment accessibility in Nairobi, Kenya and evaluates whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246576
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Reshaping Urbanization in Rwanda : Economic and Spatial Trends and Proposals
World Bank Group - 2017
. With urbanization as an explicit developmental strategy, the government has indeed made significant efforts to prepare a …'s policies and strategies on urbanization as a driver of economic development, job creation, and poverty reduction, through the … following four stand-alone but closely related notes. Note 1 examines Rwanda's urbanization process since 2002 by analyzing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644967
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The hidden wealth of cities : creating, financing, and managing public spaces
Kher Kaw, Jon (ed.); Lee, Hyunji (ed.); Wahba, Sameh (ed.) - 2020
This book identifies effective strategies to plan, create and manage government and privately-owned public urban spaces, and explores the broad spectrum of ways to govern public spaces and how they can be financially sustainable assets. The book consists of three Parts. Part I explores the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644271