Informal settlement as a global urban phenomenon encounters different social, physical and economic shortcomings. These fabrics especially in cities of the global south experience an escalating gap with developed urban areas. In this regard, faltering economy plays a major contribution in continuity of poverty and exclusion. In Iran, Empowerment plan could not lead to favorable and stable resul...

Background: Informal payments can cause delayed access to health care services, forcing people to sell their properties for cost of treatment; and as a result, they lose trust in the health system. Considering the importance of this issue, this study was conducted in 2016 to identify solutions to reduce and eliminate informal payments in Iran’s health system.    Methods: Initia...

This research is to expand an estimation model for medical service value of informal workers for the social security system. In this study, the data of workers in year 2010 provided by the Social Security Office in Thailand was analyzed and used to create for non-surgical medical service value model. The data obtained from the fuzzy clustering analysis is used to establish a membership function...

At present, reducing subgrade settlement of soft soil foundation is a key problem in high-speed railway construction. Pile-slab structure is a widely-utilized form of foundation structure to reduce the subgrade settlement in China. In order to save the engineering cost for high-speed railway construction in developing countries, the author developed a pile-slab structure and named it as the new...

The international initiatives by various agencies (such as World bank, FAO, UN, FIG, etc.) suggest that cadastre and land registration systems are currently undergoing major changes worldwide. On such changes, the emerging trends focus on easy access to land, security of land tenure, establishment and operation of efficient land markets, formalization of property rights, incorporating customary...

This article presents the description of changes in terms of maternal, neonatal and child health due to the initiatives of Manoshi Project by Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC). Analysis of changes is also highlighted here. BRAC started the Manoshi Project to bring skilled care into the informal settlement of six major cities in Bangladesh in 2007. Three core methods including social...