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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...
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Free Movement and Affordable Housing : Public Preferences for Reform in Uzbekistan
Seitz, William Hutchins - 2020
Uzbekistan has one of the lowest rates of internal migration in the world, leading to persistent economic imbalances. Drawing from a unique monthly panel survey called Listening to the Citizens of Uzbekistan and a survey experiment, this paper focuses on two factors that prevent domestic...
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Rental Regulation and its Consequences on Measures of Well-Being in the Arab Republic of Egypt
Lara Ibarra, Gabriel - 2017
The paper delves into the implications of a failure to account for rental regulation in the measurement of households' welfare, poverty, and inequality when using household surveys. Exploiting previously unavailable data for the Egyptian case, the paper illustrates the long-lasting distortions...
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Housing, Imputed Rent, and Households'Welfare
Ceriani, Lidia - 2019
Housing is the largest durable good consumed by households. As such, any consumption-based measure of welfare, to be comprehensive, must include the value of the flow of services households derive from their dwellings, the so-called imputed rent. However, estimating imputed rents is a daunting...
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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 … study focuses on the city of Pune, India, where government agencies have formalized slums by legally ensuring the occupancy …
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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...
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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...
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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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India's Internal Labor Migration Paradox : The Statistical and the Real
Nayyar, Gaurav - 2018
Internal labor migration rates in India have been largely static and low in recent times compared with those in other … the India Human Development Survey, which provides a more recent source of data compared with the Census and other …-12, empirical analysis based on the India Human Development Survey highlights several socioeconomic factors associated with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926474
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Identifying Catch-Up Trajectories in Child Growth : New Methods with Evidence from Young Lives
Jones, Sam - 2018
of catch-up growth across the four Young Lives countries (Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam). In addition, the paper …
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