Although rent control has often been treated as the single most important shelter policy issue by project officers and Bank management, amazingly little work has been done to examine rent control laws...
In Indonesia, and across the developing world, policymakers are apprehensive about increasing urbanization, fearing that it will concentrate population in one or very few centers, drawing resources away...
This report introduces the reader to the findings of a large-scale research project and only highlights findings reported in greater depth in project papers. Looking at a system of cities across the stages...
This report applies the economic and social methodology for project analysis developed by Lyn Squire and Herman Van der Tak to the evaluation of low cost housing options in El Salvador. Data was collected...
This paper, entitled Here, There, Where - a strategy for evaluating industrial relocation policies in Korea, presents a conceptual framework for analyzing the effects of government policies intended to...
This paper on an evaluation of industrial location policies for urban de-concentration in Seoul presents a comprehensive review of the history of industrial location policies implemented in Korea during...
This report describes some of the research strategies which can be used in the evaluation of urban shelter programs in developing cities. Part 1 discusses some of the general issues in the definition of...