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来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP12319
	DP12319 Planning Ahead for Better Neighborhoods: Long Run Evidence from Tanzania
	Guy Michaels; Dzhamilya Nigmatulina; Ferdinand Rauch; Neeraj Baruah
发表日期	2017-09-21
出版年	2017
语种	英语
摘要	What are the long run consequences of planning and providing basic infrastructure in neighborhoods, where people build their own homes? We study "Sites and Services" projects implemented in seven Tanzanian cities during the 1970s and 1980s, half of which provided infrastructure in previously unpopulated areas (de novo neighborhoods), while the other half upgraded squatter settlements. Using satellite images and surveys from the 2010s, we find that de novo neighborhoods developed better housing than adjacent residential areas (control areas) that were also initially unpopulated. Specifically, de novo neighborhood are more orderly and their buildings have larger footprint areas and are more likely to have multiple stories, as well as connections to electricity and water, basic sanitation and access to roads. And though de novo neighborhoods generally attracted better educated residents than control areas, the educational difference is too small to account for the large difference in residential quality that we find. While we have no natural counterfactual for the upgrading areas, descriptive evidence suggests that they are if anything worse than the control areas.
主题	Development Economics ; International Trade and Regional Economics ; Labour Economics
关键词	Urban economics Economic development Slums Africa
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp12319
来源智库	Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/541129
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Guy Michaels,Dzhamilya Nigmatulina,Ferdinand Rauch,et al. DP12319 Planning Ahead for Better Neighborhoods: Long Run Evidence from Tanzania. 2017.