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The Political Economy of Slums: Theory and Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

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  1. Jonathan Simbeya Mwamba, 2020. "Analysis of Space Manipulation in an Informal Urban Settlement: The Case of Ng’ombe in Lusaka, Zambia," International Journal of Social Science Studies, Redfame publishing, vol. 8(6), pages 41-58, December.
  2. Felix SK Agyemang & Nicky Morrison, 2018. "Recognising the barriers to securing affordable housing through the land use planning system in Sub-Saharan Africa: A perspective from Ghana," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 55(12), pages 2640-2659, September.
  3. Elise Huillery, 2009. "History Matters: The Long-Term Impact of Colonial Public Investments in French West Africa," American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Association, vol. 1(2), pages 176-215, April.
  4. Chandan Deuskar, 2020. "Informal urbanisation and clientelism: Measuring the global relationship," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 57(12), pages 2473-2490, September.
  5. Franklin Obeng-Odoom, 2015. "The Social, Spatial, and Economic Roots of Urban Inequality in Africa: Contextualizing Jane Jacobs and Henry George," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 74(3), pages 550-586, May.
  6. Ivan Turok & Josh Budlender & Justin Visagie, 2017. "The Role of Informal Urban Settlements in Upward Mobility," Working Papers 201701, University of Cape Town, Development Policy Research Unit.
  7. Meran, Georg & Siehlow, Markus & von Hirschhausen, Christian, 2018. "Pipes, Taps and Vendors: Managing and Regulating the Unconnected Water Market," VfS Annual Conference 2018 (Freiburg, Breisgau): Digital Economy 181584, Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association.
  8. Sugata Bag & Suman Seth, 2018. "Does It Matter How We Assess Standard of Living? Evidence from Indian Slums Comparing Monetary and Multidimensional Approaches," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 140(2), pages 715-754, November.
  9. Talukdar, Debabrata, 2018. "Cost of being a slum dweller in Nairobi: Living under dismal conditions but still paying a housing rent premium," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 109(C), pages 42-56.
  10. Obaco, Moisés & Royuela, Vicente & Matano, Alessia, 2021. "On the link between material deprivation and city size: Ecuador as a case study," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 111(C).
  11. Ashley Gunter & Kenneth Manuel, 2016. "A role for housing in development: Using housing as a catalyst for development in South Africa," Local Economy, London South Bank University, vol. 31(1-2), pages 312-321, February.
  12. Gabriella McMichael, 2016. "Land conflict and informal settlements in Juba, South Sudan," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 53(13), pages 2721-2737, October.
  13. Wutich, Amber & Beresford, Melissa & Carvajal, Cinthia, 2016. "Can Informal Water Vendors Deliver on the Promise of A Human Right to Water? Results From Cochabamba, Bolivia," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 79(C), pages 14-24.
  14. Gulyani, Sumila & Talukdar, Debabrata & Bassett, Ellen M., 2018. "A sharing economy? Unpacking demand and living conditions in the urban housing market in Kenya," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 109(C), pages 57-72.
  15. Samantha C Winter & Lena Moraa Obara & Sarah McMahon, 2020. "Intimate partner violence: A key correlate of women’s physical and mental health in informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 15(4), pages 1-18, April.
  16. Godwin Boateng, Festival, 2021. "A critique of overpopulation as a cause of pathologies in African cities: Evidence from building collapse in Ghana," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 137(C).
  17. Paul Jones, 2017. "Formalizing the Informal: Understanding the Position of Informal Settlements and Slums in Sustainable Urbanization Policies and Strategies in Bandung, Indonesia," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 9(8), pages 1-27, August.
  18. Sangeetha Madhavan & Shelley Clark & Sara Schmidt, 2021. "Single mothers coping with food insecurity in a Nairobi slum," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 58(13), pages 2703-2720, October.
  19. Anirudh Krishna, 2018. "Globalised growth in largely agrarian contexts: the urban–rural divide," Global Development Institute Working Paper Series esid-101-18, GDI, The University of Manchester.
  20. Georg Meran & Markus Siehlow & Christian von Hirschhausen, 2021. "Pipes, Taps, and Vendors: An Integrated Water Management Approach," Water Economics and Policy (WEP), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 7(04), pages 1-29, October.
  21. Sean Fox & Robin Bloch & Jose Monroy, 2018. "Understanding the dynamics of Nigeria’s urban transition: A refutation of the ‘stalled urbanisation’ hypothesis," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 55(5), pages 947-964, April.
  22. Ivan Turok & Joshua Budlender & Justin Visagie, 2018. "Urban “slums” and social mobility," Development Policy Review, Overseas Development Institute, vol. 36(6), pages 703-725, October.
  23. Loren B Landau, 2018. "Friendship fears and communities of convenience in Africa’s urban estuaries: Connection as measure of urban condition," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 55(3), pages 505-521, February.
  24. Joshi, Nupur & Gerlak, Andrea K. & Hannah, Corrie & Lopus, Sara & Krell, Natasha & Evans, Tom, 2023. "Water insecurity, housing tenure, and the role of informal water services in Nairobi’s slum settlements," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 164(C).
  25. Cesar Pakissi, 2015. "Impact of utilities distribution in the population scattering: one analyzes of the African reality -Huambo Angola," ERSA conference papers ersa15p569, European Regional Science Association.
  26. Vianna, Andre C. & Mollick, Andre V., 2018. "Institutions: Key variable for economic development in Latin America," Journal of Economics and Business, Elsevier, vol. 96(C), pages 42-58.
  27. Narloch, Ulf & Bangalore, Mook, 2018. "The multifaceted relationship between environmental risks and poverty: new insights from Vietnam," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 87553, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
  28. Emily Rains & Anirudh Krishna, 2019. "Will urbanization raise social mobility in the South, replicating the economic history of the West?," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2019-102, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
  29. Jonathan Crush & Ndeyapo Nickanor & Lawrence Kazembe, 2018. "Informal Food Deserts and Household Food Insecurity in Windhoek, Namibia," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(1), pages 1-15, December.
  30. Auerbach, Adam Michael, 2017. "Neighborhood Associations and the Urban Poor: India’s Slum Development Committees," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 96(C), pages 119-135.
  31. Nogueira, Mara, 2019. "Displacing Informality: rights and Legitimacy in Belo Horizonte, Brazil," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 100837, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
  32. Busisiwe Nkonki-Mandleni & Abiodun Olusola Omotayo & David Ikponmwosa Ighodaro & Samuel Babatunde Agbola, 2021. "Analysis of the Living Conditions at eZakheleni Informal Settlement of Durban: Implications for Community Revitalization in South Africa," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(4), pages 1-16, February.
  33. Sahasranaman, Anand & Bettencourt, Luís M.A., 2021. "Life between the city and the village: Scaling analysis of service access in Indian urban slums," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 142(C).
  34. Ivan Turok & Jackie Borel-Saladin, 2018. "The theory and reality of urban slums: Pathways-out-of-poverty or cul-de-sacs?," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 55(4), pages 767-789, March.
  35. Nicky Morrison, 2017. "Playing by the rules? New institutionalism, path dependency and informal settlements in Sub-Saharan Africa," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 49(11), pages 2558-2577, November.
  36. Obaco, Moisés & Pontarollo, Nicola & Mendieta Muñoz, Rodrigo & Díaz-Sánchez, Juan Pablo, 2022. "On the association between housing deprivation and urban size: Evidence from South Asia," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 157(C).
  37. Kwasi Anarfi & Chris Shiel & Ross A. Hill, 2020. "Assessing How Sustainability Is Promoted in Ghana’s National Urban Policy and Action Plan," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(18), pages 1-15, September.
  38. Giovanni Ferri & Roshan Borsato, 2018. "Urbanization And International Migration From Africa," CERBE Working Papers wpC29, CERBE Center for Relationship Banking and Economics.
  39. Larissa Larsen & Kumelachew Yeshitela & Tilahun Mulatu & Sisay Seifu & Hayal Desta, 2019. "The Impact of Rapid Urbanization and Public Housing Development on Urban Form and Density in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia," Land, MDPI, vol. 8(4), pages 1-13, April.
  40. Rains, Emily & Krishna, Anirudh, 2020. "Precarious gains: Social mobility and volatility in urban slums," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 132(C).
  41. Emily Rains, 2018. "Urbanization and India’s Slum Continuum: Evidence on the Range of Policy Needs and Scope of Mobility," Working Papers id:12633, eSocialSciences.
  42. Sinharoy, Sheela S. & Pittluck, Rachel & Clasen, Thomas, 2019. "Review of drivers and barriers of water and sanitation policies for urban informal settlements in low-income and middle-income countries," Utilities Policy, Elsevier, vol. 60(C), pages 1-1.
  43. Mariaflavia Harari & Maisy Wong, 2018. "Slum Upgrading and Long-run Urban Development: Evidence from Indonesia," 2018 Meeting Papers 367, Society for Economic Dynamics.
  44. Valeria Groppo, 2014. "Internal Migration in Developing Countries," DIW Roundup: Politik im Fokus 31, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research.
  45. Joseph, Lucy & Neven, An & Martens, Karel & Kweka, Opportuna & Wets, Geert & Janssens, Davy, 2020. "Measuring individuals' travel behaviour by use of a GPS-based smartphone application in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 88(C).
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