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Free Movement and Affordable Housing: Public Preferences for Reform in Uzbekistan

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dc.contributor.authorSeitz, William
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-09T18:14:57Z
dc.date.available2020-01-09T18:14:57Z
dc.date.issued2020-01
dc.description.abstractUzbekistan has one of the lowest rates of internal migration in the world, leading to persistent economic imbalances. Drawing from a unique monthly panel survey called Listening to the Citizens of Uzbekistan and a survey experiment, this paper focuses on two factors that prevent domestic mobility: (i) restrictive propiska registration policies, and (ii) the exceptionally high cost of urban housing. Registration rules prohibit migration to urban centers, and urban housing costs push up the cost of living to as much as 550 percent of the national average, levels severely unaffordable for almost all rural residents. But the proposed government reforms in 2019 to address these challenges are very popular. The results show that about 90 percent of people support lifting all registration restrictions and over 80 percent favor increasing urban housing construction. The results of the experiment show that reform popularity increases when propiska rules and housing costs are referenced in randomly assigned vignettes. However, views may also be sensitive to perceptions of fairness. Recent high-profile involuntary demolitions coincided with a doubling of the share responding that policies are unfair. The increase was further associated with declining optimism and lower support for the wider government national development program, beyond urbanization issues.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/595891578495293475/Free-Movement-and-Affordable-Housing-Public-Preferences-for-Reform-in-Uzbekistan
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-9107
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/33156
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPolicy Research Working Paper;No. 9107
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subjectINTERNAL MIGRATION
dc.subjectURBANIZATION
dc.subjectHOUSING
dc.subjectAFFORDABILITY
dc.subjectPROPISKA
dc.subjectURBAN HOUSING
dc.subjectREGISTRATION POLICY
dc.subjectHOUSING CONSTRUCTION
dc.subjectNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN
dc.titleFree Movement and Affordable Housingen
dc.title.subtitlePublic Preferences for Reform in Uzbekistanen
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.typeDocument de travailfr
dc.typeDocumento de trabajoes
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okr.crossref.titleFree Movement and Affordable Housing: Public Preferences for Reform in Uzbekistan
okr.date.disclosure2020-01-08
okr.doctypePublications & Research
okr.doctypePublications & Research::Policy Research Working Paper
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/595891578495293475/Free-Movement-and-Affordable-Housing-Public-Preferences-for-Reform-in-Uzbekistan
okr.guid595891578495293475
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okr.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-9107
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum090224b0874b970f_1_0
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum31689268
okr.identifier.reportWPS9107
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okr.pdfurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/595891578495293475/pdf/Free-Movement-and-Affordable-Housing-Public-Preferences-for-Reform-in-Uzbekistan.pdfen
okr.region.administrativeEurope and Central Asia
okr.region.countryUzbekistan
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okr.statistics.dr595891578495293475
okr.statistics.drstats3294
okr.topicCommunities and Human Settlements::Housing & Human Habitats
okr.topicUrban Development::Municipal Housing and Land
okr.topicUrban Development::National Urban Development Policies & Strategies
okr.topicUrban Development::Urban Governance and Management
okr.topicUrban Development::Urban Housing
okr.unitPoverty and Equity Global Practice
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