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Session Chair: Remi Jedwab, George Washington University, United States of America
Location:MC 5-100
Presentations
ID: 158 / 05-05: 1 Individual Papers Topics: Global frameworks; indicators; progress monitoring, LGAF Keywords: affordable housing; Programa Minha Casa Minha Vida; integrated urban development; delinquency rate
High delinquency rates in Brazil’s Minha Casa Minha Vida housing program: Possible causes and necessary reforms
Arthur Acolin1, Marja Hoek-Smit2, Claudia Magalhães Eloy3
1University of Washington, United States of America; 2University of Pennsylvania, United States of America; 3Independent, Brazil
ID: 213 / 05-05: 2 Individual Papers Topics: Economic research and impact evaluation Keywords: Informal land use, informal land tenure, informal housing, low-income housing, access to jobs
Backyarding: theory and evidence for South Africa
Jan Brueckner1, Claus Rabe2, Harris Selod3
1University of California, Irvine, United States of America; 2Independent consultant, South Africa; 3World Bank, United States of America
ID: 861 / 05-05: 3 Individual Papers Topics: Economic research and impact evaluation Keywords: land regularization, systematic review; impact evaluation; upgrading interventions, informal urbanization, causal effects
Impact Evaluations of Informal Settlements Upgrading Interventions: Evidence assessment and new topics for research.
Cynthia Goytia1, Guadalupe Dorna2
1Harvard University and Torcuato Di Tella University, Argentina; 2Torcuato Di Tella University, Argentina
ID: 490 / 05-05: 4 Individual Papers Topics: Urban expansion, land use, land value capture, and housing Keywords: Slums, Housing, Policy, Enumeration
Measuring housing deprivations in India: an alternative approach to slum enumeration
Amit Patel1, Phoram Shah2
1University of Massachusetts Boston, United States of America; 2The World Bank Group, United States of America