Slum dwellers may decide to live in slums due to location preferences, even though they have access to subsi-dized housing in the city outskirts. We examine this hypothesis by studying the evolution of location choices ...

Improving access to modern fuels is essential in developing countries for reducing adverse human health and environmental impacts caused by traditional fuels. Fuels use in developing countries is heterogeneous across ...

Leptospirosis disproportionately affects residents of urban slums. To understand the knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding leptospirosis, we conducted a cross-sectional study among residents of an urban slum community ...

The emergence of slums is a common feature in a countryís path towards urbanization, structural transformation and development. Based on salient micro and macro evidence of Brazilian labor, housing and education markets, ...

Are slum dwellers more involved in clientelistic arrangements than other (urban poor) voters? While poverty is a key predictor of clientelism, some urban poor voters are more involved in clientelistic arrangements than ...

This chapter discusses the narratives of the future that the young people construct, narratives that constitute a political map that is drawn on the basis of lines of sedimentation that become lines of flight. It describes ...