Research Department
Inter-American Development Bank
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Monitoring The Urban Quality of Life in Latin America
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Latin American Cities: Their Origins, Achievements and Problems, By Eduardo Lora
Chapter 2 Happiness, Economics and Hedonic Equations, By Bernard M.S. Van Praag and Ada Ferrer -i- Carbonell
Chapter 3 What Determines Neighborhood Quality of Life: A Summary of the Results from Case Studies, By Andrew Powell and Pablo Sanguinetti
Chapter 4 Quality of Life in Buenos Aires’ Neighborhoods: Hedonic Price Regressions and the Life Satisfaction Approach, By Guillermo Cruces, Andrés Ham and Martín Tetaz
Chapter 5 The Quality of Life of Urban Neighborhoods in Bolivia: A case of study of the Great La Paz and Santa Cruz, By Werner L. Hernani-Limarino, Wilson Jimenez, Boris Arias and Cecilia Larrea
Chapter 6 Quality of Life in Urban Neighborhoods in Colombia: The Cases of Bogotá and Medellín, By Carlos Medina, Leonardo Morales and Jairo Núñez
Chapter 7 Quality of Life in Urban Neighborhoods in Costa Rica, By Luis Hall, Róger Madrigal and Juan Robalino
Chapter 8 Quality of Life in Urban Neighborhoods in Metropolitan Lima, Peru, By Lorena Alcázar y Raúl Andrade
Chapter 9 Quality of Life in Montevideo, By Zuleika Ferre, Néstor Gandelman and Giorgina Piani (Universidad de la República)