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JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, 2020 BackgroundThe challenges faced by the Global South during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic are compounded by the presence of informal settlements, which are typically densely populated and lacking in formalized sanitation infrastructure ...
Gibson, Lesley, Rush, David
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract Caste—an ascriptive social hierarchy in South Asia and its diaspora—is a globalized phenomenon. Recent caste‐based discrimination, particularly in technology companies and anti‐caste efforts to address it, has compelled academia, policy, and the technology industry to better understand contemporary mechanics of caste.
Nayana Kirasur, Britt Paris
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Urban planning method for fostering social sustainability: Can bottom-up and top-down meet?
Results in Engineering, 2021 The main topic of the present study is the discrepancy occurring when traditional top-down approaches to urban planning are applied to settlements that have been formed in spontaneous, informal bottom-up manner.
Jelena Atanacković Jeličić +4 more
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Namuwongo: Key to Kampala’s present and future Development [PDF]
, 2015 Ahead of an exhibition celebrating the Kampala neighbourhood, Namuwongo, Joel Ongwec showcases the contribution this informal settlement and its inhabitants to Uganda’s capital ...
Ongwec, Joel
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Information and immigrant settlement
Journal of Development EconomicsWe study a randomly-assigned program providing information on U.S. settlement for new Filipino immigrants. The intervention, a 2.5-hour pre-departure training and an accompanying paper handbook, has no effect on employment, settlement, and subjective wellbeing, but leads immigrants to acquire substantially fewer social network connections.
Toman Barsbai +4 more
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State Failure in Weak States: A Critique of New Institutionalist Explanations [PDF]
, 1995 This chapter examines the implications of the new institutional economics (NIE) for analysing state failure in developing countries. The NIE approach aims to identify the institutional causes of state failure. In their chapters Bates and Toye have argued
Khan, Mushtaq
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“Place Attachment” Pemukim Pascarelokasi Di Kota Palu [PDF]
, 2005 The limited of land and accesibility of the low income people in Palu city caused the growth of illegal informal settlements. Within its settlement development programs, the local government of Palu was applying a relocation policy.
Batudoka, Z. (Zubair)
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Listening to Hong Kong children's perspectives through pretend play
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC) has become an increasing concern in recent years. The issue has been regularly discussed by different stakeholders. However, the rising concern regarding quality in ECEC has not seriously taken into account children's perspectives.
Suzannie K. Y. Leung
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This paper explores the growing influence of young people's activism in UK museums and its educational implications. It draws on a five‐year collaborative programme (2019–2023) with young people of colour (16–28) in a university museum setting, focusing on a Young Collective established to address cultural inequalities.
Sadia Habib
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Causal drivers of mosquito abundance in urban informal settlements
Environmental Research LettersUrban informal settlement residents are vulnerable to mosquito-borne diseases, but little is known about the specific drivers of risk, or how they differ, within the diversity of informal settlements globally.
Emma E Ramsay +11 more
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