Impact Initiative - Urban/Rural: Recent submissions
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Behavior at the Local Level
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Information Asymmetry, Group Structure And Repayment: a Study from BRAC Sierra Leone
(2014)By pulling together survey and experimental data, this research provides new empirical insight into the role of information asymmetry in the process of group structure, the role of risk homogeneity under group lending and ... -
Measuring Discrimination at the Local Level
(2014)A robust literature in the social sciences uses experimental games to study discrimination. Often, these games are played between strangers, and players are given little information about the population from which the ... -
Bridging the gender divide : an experimental analysis of group formation in African villages
(2010)Assortative matching occurs in many social contexts. We experimentally investigate gender assorting in sub-Saharan villages. In the experiment, co-villagers could form groups to share winnings in a gamble choice game. The ... -
Who shares risk with whom under different enforcement mechanisms?
(2010)We investigate whether available enforcement mechanisms affects who shares risk with whom in sub-Saharan Africa by applying dyadic regression analysis to data from a lab-type experiment, surveys and a genealogical mapping ... -
Smart Handpumps: Reliable Service Delivery at Scale in Rural Africa
(2013)The presentation covered the rural water challenge and opportunity in Africa, in particular the problems associated with non-functional handpumps and lack of access to safe water. Studies on the use of smart handpumps in ... -
Poverty, participation and aerial cable-cars: a case study of Medellín, Colombia.
(2011)Introduction This paper reflects on partial results of an on-going research project seeking to learn systematically from a set of public transport and urban upgrading interventions fostered by the local government of ... -
Murder capital to modern miracle? The progression of governance in Medellin, Colombia
(2012)The most violent city in the world only twenty years ago, Medellín, Colombia is now a beacon of progressive urban development. Governance and structuration theory provide an analytical framework through which three stages ... -
Impacto del Sistema de Cable Aéreo (Metrocable) Sobre la Accesibilidad en la Comuna #1 de Medellín
(2011)La ciudad de Medellín inauguró en el año 1995 un sistema de Metro, sin embargo en el año 2004 todavía existían algunas zonas de la ciudad con problemas de transporte. Este es el caso de la comuna #1 de Medellín, la cual ... -
Transport, Urban Development and the Peripheral Poor in Colombia: Placing Splintering Urbanism in the Context of Transport Networks
(2013)In rapidly growing cities the evolution of utility and communication infrastructures has enabled the creation of ‘premium networked spaces’ exclusively for wealthier groups thus deepening already large social inequalities. ... -
Aerial Cable-car Systems for Public Transport in Low-income Urban Areas: Lessons from Medellin, Colombia
(2011)In 2004 the first urban aerial cable-car public transport system was introduced in the city of Medellín, Colombia. The imaginative application of ski-slope technology to high-gradient, low-income urban areas attracted ... -
SRI Cultivation in Andhra Pradesh: Achievements, Problems and implications for Greenhouse Gases and Work
(2013)Strategies and solutions to meet the challenges of GHGs call for new methods and technologies. Potential options for the rice industry sector to contribute to the mitigation of, and adaptation to, climate change by increasing ... -
Energy Gardens for Small-Scale Farmers in Nepal Institutions, Species and Technology. Field Work Report
The Nepal Energy Garden forges new links across disciplines by integrating research on the institutional economics of energy and technology transfer with the knowledge of botanists and engineers. The objectives are ...