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  1. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    May, 2012
    Central America, South America

    Con la crisis del fordismo urbano, el mercado inmobiliario ha resurgido como una fuerza determinante del proceso de coordinación social del uso del suelo y la producción de estructura intraurbana. Es el retorno de la "mano invisible" del mercado. En este artículo se analiza la relación entre la producción de estructura urbana y el funcionamiento del mercado inmobiliario en América Latina, tanto en su versión formal como en la informal.

  2. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    November, 2012
    Mexico

    This article contributes to the study of the geographical concentration of financial investments in real estate markets. It demonstrates the social construction process at work in the evolution of real estate market risks. The objective is to highlight the conditions that allow or impede the implementation of ‘opportunistic’ and ‘conservative’ risk strategies.

  3. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Mexico

    This paper analyzes poverty in rural and semi-urban areas of Mexico (localities with less than 2,500 and 15,000 inhabitants, respectively) and provides guidance on a social agenda and poverty alleviation strategy for rural Mexico. The analyses are based on INIGH and ENE data sets for 1992-2002. Monetary extreme poverty affected 42 percent of the rural dwellers in dispersed rural areas and 21 percent in semi-urban areas in 2002, slightly less than one decade earlier.

  4. Library Resource
    August, 2012
    Uruguay

    This report makes several policy
    conclusions related to urban poverty and development in
    Uruguay and potentially the rest of Latin America. First,
    policies which prioritize improvements in access to quality
    basic services, particularly education, health,
    transportation, social assistance, more flexible land use
    policies, as well as public information for those in
    marginal areas could help to provide an important link to

  5. Library Resource
    August, 2012
    Latin America and the Caribbean

    The proliferation of urban slums is due
    in large part to obsolete regulatory, legal and
    institutional frameworks at the local level governing land
    use, development standards, land registration and titling.
    These regulations are often exclusionary, insisting on
    development norms and standards that are outside the realm
    of the poor to pay and subdivision procedures are often over
    burdensome, leading to informal land subdivision, thus

  6. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Latin America and the Caribbean

    With three quarters of its population
    living in cities, Latin America is now essentially an urban
    region. Higher urbanization is usually associated with a
    number of positives, such as higher income, greater access
    to services, and lower poverty incidence, and, Latin America
    is no exception. Today, urban poverty incidence, at 28
    percent, is half that of in rural areas; extreme poverty, at
    12 percent, is a third. Despite this relatively low poverty

  7. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Brazil

    The authors examine the determinants of Brazilian city growth between 1970 and 2000. They consider a model of a city that combines aspects of standard urban economics and the new economic geography literatures. For the empirical analysis, the authors construct a dataset of 123 Brazilian agglomerations and estimate aspects of the demand and supply side, as well as a reduced form specification that describes city sizes and their growth.

  8. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Mexico

    Half of the moderately poor, and one third of the extremely poor now live in urban areas in Mexico. While cities offer a number of opportunities and specific challenges for the poor, low quality and high costs restrict real access to basic public services. Yet, the urban-rural distinctions need to be seen as a continuum, where depth and characteristics of poverty vary with settlement size. The objective of this report is to inform the design of urban poverty interventions. It is organized as follows.

  9. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Argentina

    Rural poverty remains a crucial part of the poverty picture in Argentina. This paper used a rural dataset collected by the World Bank in 2003. Findings show that extreme income poverty in rural areas reached 39 percent of the people or 200,000-250,000 indigent families.

  10. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Latin America and the Caribbean

    This paper addresses the deceptively simple question: What is the rural population of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)? It argues that rurality is a gradient, not a dichotomy, and nominates two dimensions to that gradient: population density and remoteness from large metropolitan areas. It uses geographically referenced population data (from the Gridded Population of the World, version 3) to tabulate the distribution of populations in Latin America and in individual countries by population density and by remoteness.

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