Degradation of urban areas is a typical problem of many cities. The activities included in the process of regeneration are aimed at solving the problem in its social, economic and urban planning dimensions. The city is a cultural space of different values, an area of business life and a product...

This paper examines bureaucratic delay within the allocation of small infrastructure projects by sub-municipal governments in Bolivia, and it presents a randomized field experiment designed to improve public service delivery by promoting voice, transparency, and accountability among grassroots...

Since 2003, when the Workers’ Party took office in Brazil, the federal government has brought big infrastructure projects back to the political agenda, including in the environmentally and socially fragile Amazon region. Unlike the military regime that promoted such projects decades before,...

In this paper we link unique data on local social infrastructure expenditure with micro-level individual survey data of self-reported social capital measures of trust and participation in community activities. We use both probit and tobit models to estimate the impact of social infrastructure...