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Access to water in the slums of the developing world
Dagdeviren, Hulya; Robertson, Simon A. - 2009
safe, affordable, continuous and easy access to water in countries where there is a sizeable slum population. The second is …
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Deadly Cities? A Note on Spatial Inequalities in Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa
Harttgen, Kenneth; Günther, Isabel - 2011
countries high child mortality pockets do, however, exist in slum areas within cities. Child mortality rates in slum areas are …
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Deadly Cities? A Note on Spatial Inequalities in Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa
Günther, Isabel; Harttgen, Kenneth - 2010
countries high child mortality pockets do, however, exist in slum areas within cities. Child mortality rates in slum areas are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330007
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Family migration: a vehicle of child morbidity in the informal settlements of Nairobi City, Kenya?
Konseiga, Adama - 2008
Parental migration is often found to be negatively correlated with child health in Africa, yet the causal mechanisms are poorly understood. The paper uses a dataset that provides information from the respondent parent on child morbidity both in the rural and urban settings. Households first...
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A theory of urban squatting and land-tenure formalization in developing countries
Brueckner, Jan Keith; Selod, Harris - 2008
This paper offers a new theoretical approach to urban squatting, reflecting the view that squatters and formal residents compete for land within a city. The key implication of this view is that squatters squeeze" the formal market, raising the price paid by formal residents. The squatter...
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High-mast lighting as an adequate way of lighting pedestrian paths in informal settlements?
Kretzer, David Michael - In: Development Engineering 5 (2020), pp. 1-8
Lighting of pedestrian paths fulfils crucial needs for informal settlement dwellers. A common technological approach in some countries to address these needs is to provide high-mast luminaires. In this paper it is shown by computer simulation that those luminaires are not able to create adequate...
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Housing for India's low-income urban households: A demand perspective
Roy, Debarpita - 2020
shortage to be 29 million in 2018. However, the much needed and sustained policy focus on slum housing, which is not restricted … to physically inadequate slum houses, warrants a broader approach to estimating housing shortage. Employing a broader …
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Dernier refuge ou presqu'île d'opportunités? Démographie et conditions de vie à Adjahui-Coubé, un habitat spontané à Abidjan
Eguavoen, Irit; Attemene, Pauline; Kouame, Fulgence; … - 2020
This research report summarises findings from an ethnographic census, interviews and observations on an Ebrié village within the metropolis of Abidjan, which has undergone a process of rapid, unplanned and irreversible urbanisation since 2012. The study estimates the population number in...
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Impact of urban microfinance on the livelihood strategies of borrower slum dwellers in the Dhaka city, Bangladesh
Hossain, Basharat; Wadood, Syed Naimul - In: Journal of Urban Management 9 (2020) 2, pp. 151-167
This paper scrutinizes the impact of urban microfinance on livelihood strategies of borrower slum dwellers of Dhaka … sample slum households of three slums (Korail, Jurain and WASA Colony slum) of Dhaka city (by a systematic random sampling … institutions (MFIs) to expand their activities among the urban slum dwellers to obtain positive changes in the livelihood …
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Informal settlements: Campos acadêmicos e geopolítica
Balbim, Renato Nunes; Santiago, Cristine Diniz - 2023
This is the fourth and last in a series of four discussion papers (DP) that are part of the research How Cities are Divided: the invention of informal settlements. The goal of this series of DPs was to carry out a culturomic and scientometric study on the use of the term informal settlements...
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