Could Gentrification Stop the Poor from Benefiting from Urban Improvements?

2021 ◽  
Vol 111 ◽  
pp. 532-537
Author(s):  
Clare Balboni ◽  
Gharad Bryan ◽  
Melanie Morten ◽  
Bilal Siddiqi
Keyword(s):  
General Equilibrium ◽  
Urban Infrastructure ◽  
Policy Choices ◽  
The Poor

When policymakers invest in urban infrastructure, there are concerns that poor residents living near the infrastructure will be displaced. This paper investigates mechanisms that may lead to such infrastructure-induced gentrification using a general equilibrium urban commuting model. Our goal is to elucidate the channels through which infrastructure-induced gentrification occurs and understand how policy choices mitigate or accentuate gentrification.

Lively Infrastructure

2014 ◽  
Vol 31 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 137-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ash Amin
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Informal Settlements ◽  
Urban Infrastructure ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Social ◽  
Community Solidarity ◽  
Belo Horizonte ◽  
Struggle For Recognition ◽  
The City

This paper examines the social life and sociality of urban infrastructure. Drawing on a case study of land occupations and informal settlements in the city of Belo Horizonte in Brazil, where the staples of life such as water, electricity, shelter and sanitation are co-constructed by the poor, the paper argues that infrastructures – visible and invisible – are deeply implicated in not only the making and unmaking of individual lives, but also in the experience of community, solidarity and struggle for recognition. Infrastructure is proposed as a gathering force and political intermediary of considerable significance in shaping the rights of the poor to the city and their capacity to claim those rights.

scholarly journals Rancang Bangun Sistem Informasi Geografis Rumah Tidak Layak Huni Sebagai Pendukung Keputusan Kebijakan Di Tingkat Desa

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian Chandra Wibawa ◽  
Bella Hardiyana
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
National Development ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Housing Assistance ◽  
Assistance Program ◽  
Policy Choices ◽  
The Poor

The implementation of social welfare development programs in developing countries is generally focused on the empowerment program of the poor, which is more nuanced in a participatory approach involving the community, business and government. empowerment is considered appropriate to be one of the policy choices in the development of social welfare today. The development of social welfare based on the principle of empowerment is intended that in the handling of the poor, it must be done through increasing the capacity of human resources to increase independence (Law Number 13 of 2011). Regional development has an impact on national development. Poverty reduction policies realized through community empowerment programs have become the main agenda and prior development in Baleendah Subdistrict, especially Rancamanyar Village. One of the poverty alleviation programs through community empowerment carried out in Rancamanyar Village is the Housing Assistance Program for uninhabitable houses. Various local government efforts to reduce the number of uninhabitable houses are still considered uneven. With the limited management and processing of survey data in the regions, it is one of the factors that do not help the existing policies. With the construction of a geographic information system for uninhabitable homes, one of the efforts that must be taken by the local government in order to support and assist in making decisions for uninhabitable houses is to conduct geographical analysis and mapping of uninhabitable houses in Rancamanyar Village, so that help is not the wrong target.

Military Spending and Inequality in Autocracies

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Soeren C. Schwuchow
Keyword(s):  
General Equilibrium ◽  
Equilibrium Model ◽  
General Framework ◽  
Initial Level ◽  
Military Spending ◽  
Rent Seeking ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The Military ◽  
The Impact

AbstractIn this note, we outline a general framework for analyzing how inequality and military spending interact in a society governed by a rent-seeking autocrat. Relying on a general equilibrium model, we show that, generally, the autocrat utilizes the military for redistribution in favor of poorer citizens. However, the dictator’s own rent-seeking activity weakens the extent of redistribution and, in the extreme, can even reverse its direction, yielding more unequal secondary distributions instead. Accordingly, the initial level of inequality also affects the impact of military spending on inequality as the former has an impact on the extent of both, the regime’s rent-seeking activity as well as redistribution. Here, our model shows that primary and secondary distributions are rather equal for extreme initial equality/inequality. For medium levels of initial inequality, redistribution is rather large and can be in favor of the poor or of the rich, depending on the extent of rent-seeking and the primary distribution. Based on these results, we highlight the importance of a society’s institutional framework for analyzing the relation of inequality and military spending.

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