Health and the Urban Transition: Effects of Household Perceptions, Illness, and Environmental Pollution on Clean Water Investment

James H. Spencer

No wp-2010-066, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: Recent efforts to reinvigorate the connections between urban planning and health have usefully brought the field back to one of its original roles. Current research, however, has focused on industrialized cities, overlooking some of the important urbanization processes in poor countries.

Keywords: Environment and economic development; Health; Regional economics; Water pollution; Water use (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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