This paper tests for the endogeneity of one of the main elements separating different models of intrahousehold allocations, namely the household information set. Based on unusually rich data, I find that split migrant couples in the Nairobi slums invest considerable resources into information acquisition through visits, sibling and child monitoring, budget submissions, and marital search. I als...

Instead of criminalizing slums, the global discourse on slums and urban poor is changing towards integration, rehabilitation, internationalizing cities. As pleasant as it may look, important to critically reflect evaluate policies upgradation especially in south. Is change from criminalization rehabilitation integration true its spirit or just another policy gimmick? This article uses critical ...

One billion people worldwide are estimated to be living in slums, and documenting analyzing these regions is a challenging task. As compared regular slums; the small, scattered temporary nature of slums makes data collection labeling tedious time-consuming. To tackle this problem detection, we present semi-supervised deep learning segmentation-based approach; with strategy detect initial seed i...

This paper focuses on finding answers to the reasons why people keep living in slums and they cannot get out of their precarious conditions. looks into different for being stuck from a religious perspective. Reasons groups are not explored fully literature. The analysis draws qualitative research with sample 53 semi-structured interviews conducted 8 katchi abadis Islamabad, Pakistan. study show...

BACKGROUND More than a third of the world's children are infected with intestinal nematodes. Current control approaches emphasise treatment of school age children, and there is a lack of information on the effects of deworming preschool children. METHODOLOGY We studied the effects on the heights and weights of 3,935 children, initially 1 to 5 years of age, of five rounds of anthelmintic treat...

OBJECTIVE We conducted a longitudinal study to assess the impact of a hand-washing intervention on growth and biomarkers of child health in Nepali slums. This is the first study to evaluate the impact of hand-washing on markers of subclinical, asymptomatic infections associated with childhood growth faltering. METHODS We recruited a total sample of infants in the target age-range (3-12 months...

Background: The population of urban areas has been increasing in an alarming rate. The people of urban slums increased faster than non-slum areas over the decades. At present more than one-third of the urban people are slum dwellers in Bangladesh. Objectives: The study aims to investigate the factors affecting contraceptive use and method choice among women living in the urban slums in Banglade...

impairment and Alzheimer disease.1 For China, it is reported that there were 9.19 million cases of any cognitive impairment in mainland China alone in 2010 and the numbers are expected to rise in the coming decades.2 Obviously, cognitive impairment will be a new epidemic in the future unless major public health policies and preventive measures target brain health. The International Association ...

no trace of the wild talk to which some of his followers have accustomed us. To demand " millions of houses " in the twinkling of an eye is to cry for the moon. If thousands of millions of money were available for the purpose to-morrow the thing could not be done. Men are as essential as money, and men at present are not forthcoming. It is true that the'Prime Minister is sanguine of being able,...

In the present days, we are watching in Romania, a process of differentiation of urban spaces according to the conditions of living, regardless of size and level of their development. The period of economic transition has changed in worst the drawbacks already existing in slums, which have been mainly marked by economic and social seclusion, absence of any infrastructure, dilapidated overcrowde...