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Rental Regulation and its Consequences on Measures of Well-Being in the Arab Republic of Egypt
Lara Ibarra, Gabriel - 2017
' welfare, poverty, and inequality when using household surveys. Exploiting previously unavailable data for the Egyptian case … overestimated urban poverty. National poverty rates show smaller corrections, as poverty is mainly a rural phenomenon in the Arab …
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Housing, Imputed Rent, and Households'Welfare
Ceriani, Lidia - 2019
suggests it is context and method specific. Although changes in poverty and inequality are always statistically significant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012865096
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Tenure Security Premium in Informal Housing Markets : A Spatial Hedonic Analysis
Nakamura, Shohei - 2017
This paper estimates slum residents' willingness to pay for formalized land tenure in Pune, India. In so doing, it offers evidence that the legal assurance of slum residents' occupancy of their lands could benefit them. Previous studies have discussed legal and non-legal factors that...
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Housing Matters
Hammam, Sonia - 2017
Housing matters to the livability of cities and to the productivity of their economies. The failure of cities to accommodate the housing needs of growing urban populations can be seen in the proliferation of poorly serviced, high-density informal settlements. Such settlements are not new in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973205
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Housing and Urbanization in Africa : Unleashing a Formal Market Process
Collier, Paul - 2017
The accumulation of decent housing matters both because of the difference it makes to living standards and because of its centrality to economic development. The consequences for living standards are far-reaching. In addition to directly conferring utility, decent housing improves health and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973218
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Converting Land into Affordable Housing Floor Space
Bertaud, Alain - 2017
Cities emerge from the spatial concentration of people and economic activities. But spatial concentration is not enough; the economic viability of cities depends on people, ideas, and goods to move rapidly across the urban area. This constant movement within dense cities creates wealth but also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973219
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Urbanization in Kazakhstan : Desirable Cities, Unaffordable Housing, and the Missing Rental Marke
Seitz, William Hutchins - 2018
Kazakhstan's cities are hubs of economic opportunity and prosperity. But despite the government's ambitious targets, the pace of urbanization remains slow. This study focuses on two key constraints: (i) the very high cost of living in Kazakhstan's cities, and (ii) the near absence of a rental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912300
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Wider Economic Benefits of Investments in Transport Corridors and the Role of Complementary Policies
Melecky, Martin - 2018
, the poverty rate, or the incidence of regular wage employment. The results suggest that the highways caused an increase in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926890
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Distribution-Sensitive Multidimensional Poverty Measures
Datt, Gaurav - 2018
This paper presents axiomatic arguments to make the case for distribution-sensitive multidimensional poverty measures … unambiguously poverty-increasing and they are also invariant to changes in the distribution of a given set of deprivations amongst … axiomatic justification for distribution-sensitive multidimensional poverty measures. Given the nonlinear structure of these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012927006
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The Role of Social Ties in Factor Allocation
Beck, Ulrik - 2018
This paper investigates whether social structure helps or hinders factor allocation using unusually rich data from The Gambia. Evidence indicates that land available for cultivation is allocated unequally across households; and that factor transfers are more common between neighbors, co-ethnics,...
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