The trend toward ever greater urbanization continues unabated across the globe. According to the United Nations, by 2025 closes to 5 billion people will live in urban areas. Many cities, especially in the developing world, are set to explode in size. Over the next decade and a half, Lagos is…
Cities exist, grow, and prosper because they take advantage of scale economies and specialization wrought by agglomeration. But output growth inevitably stresses transport infrastructure because production requires space and mobility. To prevent congestion from crowding out agglomeration…
Cities exist, grow, and prosper because they take advantage of scale economies and specialization wrought by agglomeration. But output growth inevitably stresses transport infrastructure because production requires space and mobility. To prevent congestion from crowding out agglomeration…
Housing matters to the livability of cities and to the productivity of their economies. The failure of cities to accommodate the housing needs of growing urban populations can be seen in the proliferation of poorly serviced, high-density informal settlements. Such settlements are not new in the…
Housing matters to the livability of cities and to the productivity of their economies. The failure of cities to accommodate the housing needs of growing urban populations can be seen in the proliferation of poorly serviced, high-density informal settlements. Such settlements are not new in the…
El Instituto para el Desarrollo de Sudamérica (IPDRS) realizó ya dos versiones del Concurso anual Alimentos y pensamientos, siempre en agenda, dirigido específicamente a la participación de mujeres y hombres jóvenes, focalizado en el ámbito sudamericano, en las categorías artículos y…
En América Latina, durante la última década se está produciendo un ciclo continuo de crecimiento económico, impulsado sobre todo por la gran demanda y los altos precios internacionales de las materias primas, en particular de gas, hidrocarburos y minerales. La población crece, aumentan…
The aim of this study is to discuss and apply hedonic methodology for the determination and forecast of land prices in specific markets. This is important due to the fact that there is no official or reliable information in Brazil on current prices in land market transactions. This hedonic price…
La autora del artículo de esta quincena nos interroga acerca de la elección entre seguridad y soberanía alimentaria o la dependencia e inseguridad, analizando el fenómeno del incremento de los precios de los alimentos, sus causas económicas globales y los efectos perniciosos que la mala…
This paper reviews the performance of
railway concessions in Latin America over the period
extending from the initial Argentina concessions in
1991-1993 through 2004. The bulk of the concessioning
processes described herein…
<em>Indigenous farmer in the municipality of Sayaxché, department of Petén, Guatemala, viewing the stunted corn crop on his land bordering an oil palm plantation. </em>
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The United Nations declared 2014 the International Year of Family Farming. Although many forms of production were once family-based, agriculture is now one of the few that are still dominated by families. Because family farms are so prevalent, making them more productive could help combat…