Examining the expansion of Jakarta’s bus system shows how simple improvements in public transport service quality can boost usage
Since the 1990s, neo-institutionalists have posited that "institutions matter". However, they overlook one important issue: the ways…
February 2023. GrowthPolicy’s Devjani Roy interviewed Anthony Saich, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs and the Director of the…
Governments around the world are increasingly recognizing the power of problem-oriented governance as a way to address complex public…
We use high frequency data on traffic congestion from Google Maps to measure the impact of Jakarta’s main traffic congestion reduction…
Are the well-known facts about urbanization in the United States also true for the developing world? We compare American metropolitan areas…
Chinese housing prices rose by over 10 percent per year in real terms between 2003 and 2014 and are now between two and ten times higher…
Based on survey research and ethnographic interviews, we analyze struggles over housing and access to infrastructure in two low-income "…
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A housing lottery in an Indian city provided winning slum dwellers the
opportunity to move into improved housing on the city’s periphery.…