There is a Spanish proverb that states, "Di me con quien andan, y dire quien eres," which generally translates as "Tell me who you walk with, and I will tell you who you are." We all reflect our values and beliefs, as well as our hopes and accomplishments, through the people with whom we choose to associate and those whom we avoid. Our social world is made up primarily of our family and friends...

Tuberculosis is said to be on the increase in India. The remarkable progress motor traffic has made during the last two decades has greatly facilitated intermingling of the rural and urban populations. There is no doubt that tuberculosis is rife in the congested areas and slums of Indian towns but very little information is available about its incidence in the villages. With perhaps one excepti...

It is unclear whether the survey regions, namely 6 of 1212 Villages and 4 peri-urban areas of 70 municipal wards, were chosen through an unbiased randomization process accounting at least for the socio-economic status. Apparently, the data primarily pertains to the marginalized and lower socio-economic population. The survey was largely conducted during the non winter period, when VAD estimates...

In this paper, we investigate how reductions of barriers to migration affect the decision of middle school graduates to attend high school in rural China. Change in the cost of migration is identified using exogenous variation across counties in the timing of national identity card distribution, which make it easier for rural migrants to register as temporary residents in urban destinations. We...

Policy instruments at least partly intended to promote mixed tenure include the Right to Buy, other low-cost home ownership schemes, aspects of estate and urban regeneration policy and the use of the planning system. While it might seen that 'tenure diversification' and 'mixed tenure' are euphemisms for breaking up social housing estates and reducing the total stock of social housing, the opera...

BACKGROUND Integrated community case management (iCCM) strategies aim to reach poor communities by providing timely access to treatment for malaria, pneumonia and diarrhoea for children under 5 years of age. Community health workers, known as Village Health Teams (VHTs) in Uganda, have been shown to be effective in hard-to-reach, underserved areas, but there is little evidence to support iCCM a...

Conference Home ownership in Europe: policy and research issues 23/24 November 2006, Delft WORKSHOP 1 Chair: Hannu Ruonavaara Session A Friday, 11.00 –12.30 Gábor Csanádi and Adrienne Csizmady (Centre for Regional and Urban Research, ELTE University Budapest) Migration out of Budapest due to house prices Pascal de Decker (Hogeschool Gent & Hogeschool WenK Sint-Lucas) Is the Belgium housing mode...

Populations in sub-Saharan Africa are shifting from rural to increasingly urban. Although the burden of cardiovascular disease is expected to increase with this changing landscape, few large studies have assessed a wide range of risk factors in urban and rural populations, particularly in West Africa. We conducted a cross-sectional, population-based survey of 3317 participants from Ghana (≥18 y...

Background: Malang City is a city that has function as an area of education, industry, trade, and services so it experiencing fairly rapid development. These developments often only pursue economic social aspects, causing problems in environmental aspects. Research purposes: Assessing the sustainability index all urban villages City, analyze indicators affect prepare recommendations for improvi...

This article examines how, for many in rural China, experiences of childhood are entangled within the complex processes rural-to-urban internal migration. Drawing upon multi-generational life history data three villages, it unpacks common types experience. In Village A, where married men migrated but wives stayed behind, children grew up with ‘absent fathers’. B, both parents to cities work, le...