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The Role of Micro-Entrepreneurship in Emerging Land Markets
A Case Study of Rental Markets in Havana, CubaDocumentos de TrabalhoMaio 2019Raúl Santiago-Bartolomei, Marlon G. Boarnet, Annette M. Kim, and Nicole E. EsparzaThe government of Cuba has recently allowed its citizens to buy, sell, and rent property as part of a broader set of reforms that foster land market liberalization and micro-entrepreneurship by way...
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Doing Bad by Doing Good?
An Empirical Analysis of the Incentives from Informal Settlements’ Upgrading Programs on Urban InformalityDocumentos de TrabalhoMarço 2019Cynthia Goytia and Guadalupe DornaThis paper has two different aims. First, we investigate the effects of informal settlements upgrading programs through a systematic review synthesizing the information provided by evaluations of...
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An Empirical Analysis of Land Use Regulation Determinants
Documentos de TrabalhoFevereiro 2015Cynthia Goytia, Guadalupe Dorna, Jonathan Cohen, and Ricardo PasquiniTo deepen the understanding of the economics of land regulation and its determinants we test several alternative explanations of the sources of municipal variation on the stringency of the regulatory...
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Vacant Land in Latin America
Challenges and OpportunitiesDocumentos de TrabalhoJaneiro 2006Adriana de Araujo LarangeiraThis working paper is a translation of the 2004 Spanish-language Policy Focus Report Tierra vacante en las ciudades de América Latina: Desafíos y oportunidades (Vacant Land in Latin...