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Urban GovernanceAmidst the global discourse on the provision of low-income housing, there has been a growth in studies to assess the governance issues related to the sustainability of housing delivery.
Zenkosi Dumile Mhlongo +3 more
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Shelter strategies for the urban poor : idiosyncratic and successful, but hardly mysterious [PDF]
In 1986 the World Bank prepared a strategy for low-income housing in developing countries. This work grew out of the Bank's efforts to support the urban poor through an extensive housing assistance program that was launched by Bank President McNamara's ...
Buckley, Robert M., Kalarickal, Jerry
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Livestock Tango: U.S. and Latin America Dance Together, but Who Will Lead?
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the competitiveness between Latin American and U.S. livestock and meat sectors. We employ a computable general equilibrium modeling framework to evaluate two scenarios: coordinated improvements in Latin American productivity, transport efficiency, and market access (Scenario I), and the minimum productivity gains required ...
Taís C. Menezes +2 more
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Urban GovernanceParticipation is often employed by authorities as a unilateral tool for gathering data from citizens, informing them about processes, and obtaining legitimacy and accountability, rather than truly empowering or collaborating with citizens.
Muhammet Ali Heyik +3 more
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Law and urban governance for health in times of rapid change. [PDF]
Health Promot Int, 2021 Burris S, Lin V.
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Urban governance and sustainable development in Sicily [PDF]
The growing interest for the urban level of the sustainable development derives from not only a lot of studies of researchers about the processes of the local development but also the growing attention on the environmental effects of urban activities. In
Luca Ruggiero
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Quality of Life in Urban and Rural Europe [PDF]
, 2014 Europe has large geographical differences in terms of economic and social development. Differences emerge both between and within Member States and regions, but also between urban and rural areas within regions.
Eurofound
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Temperature and Farm Labor in Nigeria
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We estimate the impact of temperature shocks on the composition of farm labor in rural Nigeria using a nationally representative household panel survey. Leveraging plausibly exogenous year‐to‐year variation in growing season temperatures, we find that warmer temperatures significantly alter farm labor composition, prompting a substantial shift
Andu Berha
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Making cities competitive and sustainable: Insights from comparative urban governance research
Urban Governance, 2022 Ling Zhu +3 more
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Institutional borrowing and chiefdomization in Chinese cities
Urban GovernanceThe success of river chief system is spurring more types of chiefs in Chinese cities. This trend of chiefdomization can be viewed as a case of institutional borrowing: institutions in one field borrowing power from those in another field.
Feng Deng
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