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Dharavi : Developing Asia's Largest Slum (B)

Iyer, Lakshmi - 2013

In July 2009, as investors prepared to submit financial bids for the $3 billion Dharavi slum redevelopment project, considerable economic and political risks remained.Learning Objective: Highlight risks and rewards of public private partnerships in slum redevelopment

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Ramanagaram Financial Diaries : Loan Repayments and Cash Patterns of the Urban Slums

Kamath, Rajalaxmi - 2014

microfinance sector in urban India …

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Spontaneously Emerging New Property Forms : Reflections on Dharavi

Babie, Paul T. - 2020

Earlier this year I visited Dharavi in Mumbai, Asia's largest urban slum1. Pervasive economic and social disadvantage are endemic to any slum, a fact which leads inexorably to wider societal instability, representing a serious political challenge to those states in which they emerge. The...

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Slum Dwellers' Rights Vis-a-Vis State

Raja, Nimish - 2008

Most of the urban poor in India live in slums and from the point of view of city planners majority of these slums are …

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Legal Status and Deprivation in India's Urban Slums : An Analysis of Two Decades of National Sample Survey Data

Nolan, Laura - 2017

In India, 52–98 million people live in urban slums, and 59% of slums are "non-notified" or lack legal recognition by … services, thereby increasing vulnerability to poor health outcomes. To quantify deprivation for each slum, we construct a basic … services deprivation score (BSDS), which includes variables that affect health, such as access to piped water, latrines, solid …

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Working with the Market : A New Approach to Reducing Urban Slums in India

Clarke Annez, Patricia - 2017

This paper examines the policy options for India as it seeks to improve living conditions of the poor on a large scale … of 20 to 30 percent of GDP, and cannot solve a problem on the scale of India's. Using two case studies, for Mumbai and …

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Moving to Opportunity or Isolation? Network Effects of a Randomized Housing Lottery in Urban India

Barnhardt, Sharon - 2015

A housing lottery in an Indian city provided winning slum dwellers the opportunity to move into improved housing on the city's periphery. Fourteen years later, relative to lottery losers, winners report improved housing farther from the city center, but no change in family income or human...

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Unintended Consequences of Rewards for Student Attendance : Results from a Field Experiment in Indian Classrooms

Visaria, Sujata - 2016

In an experiment in non-formal schools in Indian slums, a reward scheme for attending a target number of school days increased average attendance when the scheme was in place, but had heterogeneous effects after it was removed. Among students with high baseline attendance, the incentive had no...

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Experiential Household Food Insecurity in an Urban Underserved Slum of North India

Agarwal, Siddharth - 2016

One-third of India's urba ... …

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Human Touch to Detect Hypothermia in Neonates in Indian Slum Dwellings

Agarwal, Siddharth - 2016

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