Infrastructure & Urbanisation
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Building effective and functioning cities
Ed Gleaser on why urbanisation is the best way to foster economic growth, and how cities should be planned.
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The economics of clearing land mines
How does the clearance of land mines impact economic activity in Mozambique? Elias Papaioannou sheds some insight using geographical and micro-level...
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An agenda for urban access
Jitendra Bajpai of Columbia University outlines the three major accessibility problems facing cities in developing countries and policy ideas for how...
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Changing population distribution: The roles of nature and history
The dynamic interplay of geography, technology, economic growth, and history has changed the way population is distributed
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Reconstruction and conflict: Losing hearts and minds
A study finds that military-led projects in the Afghan health sector alleviate violence, whereas those in the education sector actually provoke...
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Land Rights and Urban Poverty
Sebastian Galiani on the impact Argentina’s land title policy had on credit access, housing quality, family welfare and economic ideology.
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Unfinished development projects in Ghana: Mechanising collective choice
Project non-completion, commonly attributed to corruption or clientelism, is in fact often caused by an inability to prioritise public expenditure
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Jakarta’s maligned congestion-easing policy actually worked
When unpopular anti-congestion policies were abandoned in Indonesia's capital, we discovered flawed policy had been better than no policy
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Property rights and poverty reduction: Effects of land titling on Argentina’s urban poor
Reducing the cost of land titles and simplifying the systems can improve land security and livelihoods of the poor