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Informal Settlements: Domain Report

SSRN Electronic Journal
This working paper is a synthesis of findings from seven city domain studies whichemployed the African Cities Research Consortium’s (ACRC’s) conceptual framework toprovide new insights into the challenges faced by informal settlement residents inAfrican cities, and proposed ways in which those challenges might be addressed.
Ouma, Smith, Cocco Beltrame, Daniela, Mitlin, Diana, Chitekwe-Biti, B.   +3 more
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Digital services for entrepreneurs in informal settlements

Proceedings of the Second African Conference for Human Computer Interaction: Thriving Communities, 2018
In this poster, we examine the possibilities digital services may provide to entrepreneurs in informal settlements where traditional employment is scarce. The literature and our fieldwork shows that the entrepreneurs can be separated to two main categories based on their motivations; surviving and growing.
Nieminen, Marko, Keskinen, Pietari
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Informal Settlements

Latin American Perspectives, 2002
The informal settlements orfavelas characterizing the cities of Brazil are visible evidence that the political-economic system does not adequately serve the urban population. How has society responded to this constant reminder in urban spatial form? How are these responses translated into intervention policies, and how have these in turn allowed the ...
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Effort, Information, Settlement, Trial

The Journal of Legal Studies, 1995
Given the costs of litigation and the availability of pretrial discovery, the question arises why some cases fail to settle at any time in the pretrial period. To examine this problem, the article develops a model of litigation and settlement in which the efforts the parties invest in the case (1) partly determine the strength of the plaintiff's claim ...
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Bioclimatic Design for Informal Settlements

2017
In this paper, a review of the reasons hindering the use of bioclimatic design principles in informal settlements is attempted and the perspective of bioclimatic design in those contexts is discussed. Among the main candidate reasons is the habit of mind induced by the belief that informal settlements grow organically, so as to invariably end up being ...
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Enabling Informal Settlements

2018
This chapter takes a closer look at the people- vs. place-prosperity distinction as a way of conceptualizing enablement in informal settlements. While Winnick popularized this distinction as a formal regional planning apparatus during the 1960s, the pros and cons of its relevance to informal settlements are discussed here. Whether physical upgrading in
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Asymmetric Information and the Settlement of Insurance Claims

The Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2001
The authors present a version of Spier's (1992) dynamic model of litigation and use it to derive predictions about the duration of legal claims against motor insurers. Those predictions are tested against a unique set of case data collected from an English motor insurer. The main predictions are supported, with one exception.
Fenn, P, Rickman, N
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Urbanisation and informal settlements

Development Southern Africa, 1989
(1989). Urbanisation and informal settlements. Development Southern Africa: Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 522-523.
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Civil Sector Institutions and Informal Settlements

2012
In low- and middle-income nations, civil society institutions have far more importance in the design and construction of urban housing and in the provision of housing-related infrastructure than in high-income nations. This is because so much housing provision is in informal settlements in which the state and formal building enterprises have little ...
Mitlin, D.; id_orcid 0000-0002-8811-6440, Satterthwaite, D.   +1 more
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Sharing of Information Prior to Settlement or Litigation

The RAND Journal of Economics, 1989
In this article the voluntary sharing of information prior to settlement negotiations is studied in a model where one type of litigant--plaintiffs, to be exact--possesses private information. In equilibrium, plaintiffs whose expected judgments would exceed a certain threshold will reveal their information (if they can credibly establish it) and settle ...
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