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Do Internal Migrants Suffer from Housing Extreme Overcrowding in Urban China?
Li, Sheng - 2017
Housing deprivation is central to economic deprivation. Identifying disadvantaged group(s) suffering from housing deprivation is a necessary step before the government can design effective housing assistance programmes. Using a nationwide micro-level dataset from the Chinese Family Panel Studies...
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Urbanization in China and how urban housing demand can be met
Gottschalch, Sören - 2013
As it has rightfully been recognized by China's central government, successful urbanization will be decisive for the … nation's future development. Key challenges will be to realize urbanization economies, improve production and innovation … population. This paper contributes to the discussion with illuminating the main drivers of urbanization: (i) migration and (ii …
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Urbanization in Kazakhstan : desirable cities, unaffordable housing, and the missing rental market
Seitz, William - 2018
, the pace of urbanization remains slow. This study focuses on two key constraints: (i) the very high cost of living in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011903053
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Urbanization in Kazakhstan : Desirable Cities, Unaffordable Housing, and the Missing Rental Marke
Seitz, William Hutchins - 2018
, the pace of urbanization remains slow. This study focuses on two key constraints: (i) the very high cost of living in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912300
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Caste, Faith, Gender : Determinants of Homeownership in Urban India
Das, Prashant - 2019
Analyzing a large dataset of urban non-slum households, we find that homeownership tenure choice in India is significantly associated with gender, religion and caste.In particular, large households or those headed by women or with larger number of women are significantly more inclined towards...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012864231
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Housing and Urban Vulnerability in Rapidly-Developing Cities
Tipple, Graham - 2014
In recent months, pictures of millions of homes flattened and washed away by the Indian Ocean Tsunami of 26 December, 2004, have been seen on the media. Housing vulnerability is an obvious component of the disaster; the centrality of housing to the material losses suffered, the apparent ease...
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Long-term effects of weather-induced migration on urban labor and housing markets
Busso, Matias; Chauvin, Juan Pablo - 2023
This paper explores the effects of weather-induced rural-urban migration on urban labor and housing markets in Brazil. In order to identify causal effects, it uses weather shocks to the rural municipalities of origin of migrants. We show that larger migration shocks led to an increase in...
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The impact of urbanization on housing shortages in Gaborone, Botswana
Chiguvi, Douglas - 2022
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Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa: the dynamics of population, energy consumption and misery index
Nwani, Stanley Emife; Osuji, Emeka - In: International journal of management, economics and … 9 (2020) 4, pp. 247-270
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Urban housing segregation of minorities in Western Europe and the United States
Huttman, Elizabeth D. (ed.) - 1991
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