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Do slum upgrading programmes improve living standards? Evidence from Djibouti

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  • Sandrine Mesplé-Somps

    (IRD, UMR DIAL, PSL, Université Paris-Dauphine)

  • Laure Pasquier-Doumer

    (IRD, UMR DIAL, PSL, Université Paris-Dauphine)

  • Charlotte Guénard

    (UMR Développement and Sociétés, Université Paris 1-IEDES, IRD)

Abstract

Impact studies of urban upgrading projects are few and far between. This article presents the case of an integrated urban development project in a Djibouti slum. It uses two difference-in-differences estimation techniques, one to compare the project zone with a control zone and the other to compare individuals and households within the project zone based on the extent to which the project has connected them. We find that the project has had a not-inconsiderable impact on tenure regularisation, but no impact on housing or property values. In employment, the project has had no impact on the labour supply, but has nonetheless prompted the emergence of self-employed activities. Lastly, near the new roads, poorer households are crowded out by much better-off households.

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  • Sandrine Mesplé-Somps & Laure Pasquier-Doumer & Charlotte Guénard, 2016. "Do slum upgrading programmes improve living standards? Evidence from Djibouti," Working Papers DT/2016/09, DIAL (Développement, Institutions et Mondialisation).
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    1. Pauline C Cherunya & Bernhard Truffer & Edinah Moraa Samuel & Christoph Lüthi, 2021. "The challenges of livelihoods reconstruction in the context of informal settlement upgrading," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 53(1), pages 168-190, February.

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    • R23 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Household Analysis - - - Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population
    • J68 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Public Policy

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