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Quality of Life in Buenos Aires Neighborhoods: Hedonic Price Regressions and the Life Satisfaction Approach
Cruces, Guillermo; Ham, Andrés; Tetaz, Martín - Inter-American Development Bank - 2009
This paper studies quality of life for urban neighborhoods and their determinants in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA). First, hedonic price regressions for residential prices are augmented with neighborhood characteristics, based on a real estate database with indicators on each...
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Uruguay: Staff Report for the 2013 Article IV Consultation
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2014
This 2013 Article IV Consultation highlights that growth in Uruguay has moderated to a more sustainable pace since 2012 …
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Are Uruguayan Housing Policies Reaching the Poor?: An Assessment of Housing Deficit, Housing Informality and Usage of Housing Programs in Uruguay
Garabato, Natalia; Ramada, Magdalena - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
comparing their design with households' characteristics and needs. The document additionally measures Uruguay's housing deficit …This document surveys the Uruguayan housing market, first describing the main housing programs and policies, then …, using the basis deficit as well as quantitative and qualitative deficits, and provides a definition of housing informality …
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Housing Markets in Uruguay: Determinants of Housing Demand and Its Interaction with Public Policies
Garabato, Natalia; Ramada, Magdalena - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
This paper analyzes the determinants of housing demand for Uruguay and the extent to which housing policies have an … impact on their target population. The paper first analyzes the determinants of housing demand, following an approach based … (or markets) to estimate a housing demand function. The determinants of formality and ownership choices were examined …
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Shelter from the storm : upgrading housing infrastructure in Latin American slums
Galiani, Sebastián; Gertler, Paul J.; Cooper, Ryan; … - 2014
Salvador, Mexico and Uruguay. We experimentally evaluate the impact of a housing project run by the NGO TECHO which provides … program is to improve household well-being. Our findings show that better houses have a positive effect on overall housing …
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Shelter from the storm: upgrading housing infrastructure in Latin American slums
Galiani, Sebastián; Gertler, Paul J.; Undurraga, Raimundo - In: Journal of urban economics 98 (2017), pp. 187-213
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Shelter from the storm : upgrading housing infrastructure in Latin American slums
Galiani, Sebastián; Gertler, Paul J.; Cooper, Ryan; … - 2014 - This Version: June 20, 2014
Salvador, Mexico and Uruguay. We experimentally evaluate the impact of a housing project run by the NGO TECHO which provides … program is to improve household well-being. Our findings show that better houses have a positive effect on overall housing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010367231
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Guide to Critical Issues for Socio-Cultural Analysis
Partridge, William L.; Mejía, María Clara - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
This document focuses on four sectors where socio-cultural analysis is particularly critical for addressing issues of reducing poverty and exclusion. In the case of major infrastructure projects, the primary concern is to minimize or mitigate their impacts on local communities. For projects in...
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Socio-Cultural Analysis in IDB Projects: A Discussion Paper
Partridge, William L.; Mejía, María Clara - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
This paper presents the principal issues related to socio-cultural analyses carried out in conjunction with IDB operations as a tool for maximizing project benefits to poor and excluded groups and for ensuring compliance with many of the Bank's safeguard policies. A companion manual to this...
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Guyana: Technical Note on Indigenous Peoples
Renshaw, Jonathan - Inter-American Development Bank - 2007
The aim of this note is to provide an overview of the situation of the Indigenous Peoples of Guyana. The note covers a range of issues, including land regularisation, environment - especially mining, logging and the establishment of protected areas - economic development, education, health care...
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