A Technique for Small-area Poverty Analyses

Bibliographic Data

ID10858981
AuthorsCarlos De La Espriella (Department of Housing Development and Management, University of Lund, P.O. Box 118, Lund, SE-221 00, Sweden, corresponding author)
Year2009
Volume46
Issue11
Pages2399-2421
Publication date2009-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueUrban Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0042-0980 • E-ISSN: 1360-063X
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0042098009342449
OpenAlexW2168810748
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited26

This paper proposes a technique for undertaking poverty analyses at city level, by studying the implementation of Costa Rica’s social housing policy in the medium-sized city of Liberia. The technique was appraised in relation to its capacity to explore the links between social housing, poverty and inequality, the effects of the implementation of the selected policy and the differences between targeting implementation strategies. The technique helps to clarify the effects that housing policies have on poverty reduction in Liberia. In particular, the use of an urban residential segregation approach in small-area poverty analyses allows the identification of concrete deprived urban areas and the prioritisation of feasible pro-poor land-based actions; therefore, it shows potential as a tool for urban planning and local decision-making

Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental planning · Geography · Identification (biology · Inequality · Poverty · Poverty reduction · Public economics · Relation (database · Social exclusion · Computer Science · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Urban and Rural Development Challenges · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies