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-disaster development assistance to Haiti. We find that the effects of matching new seasonal agricultural jobs in the US with Haitian … and the potential for policies of this kind to complement more traditional forms of development and humanitarian …
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, not surprising that sustainable urban development has become an integral pillar of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable …Humankind has entered a new "urban era", where the majority of the population lives in urban areas. It is, therefore … Development, including the adoption of a specific goal dedicated to cities. (...) …
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near metro stations (transitoriented development) or in the city center. Moreover, the metro and transit …-oriented development are complementary-their joint effect on incomes, prices, and welfare is greater than the combined effect of the two …
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, this paper summarizes research findings on the relationship between urbanization, urban-rural inequality, and poverty, and … provides further empirical evidence on the role of urbanization and government policies in urban poverty. Several conclusions … markets play an important role in this effect. Second, urbanization is positively correlated with urban poverty. This can be …
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inhabitants. The focus of this paper is on the role of poverty in the impact of floods on households, focusing on both direct …
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We measure multidimensional poverty in India using National Sample Survey Organization data from 2014-15 to 2017-18. We ….75 per cent over the study period. The all-India estimates indicate that 144 million people were lifted from poverty during …, sanitation, and education also have significant weights. The decline in deprivation is steeper in rural areas than urban areas …
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of distress among the poor, particularly those with informal occupations, has been widespread, effective policy response … has required real-time, researched data disaggregated for urban and rural populations and for various categories of the … poor. The Power and Partcipation Research Centre and BRAC Institute for Governance and Development's fourround panel survey …
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. The present paper treats a city, much like the city of Brussels, and its border region as an urban employment center …, shared by two language groups. Both groups commute to the city center and share a space in the urban labor market. We treat … treatment of the language groups and its implementation in the urban model. The paper treats how this can be introduced in an …
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