000016593 001__ 16593 000016593 037__ $$aUTEXAS:2152/8957 000016593 041__ $$aeng 000016593 245__ $$aRent Seeking, Rent Avoidance, and Informality: An Analysis of Third World Urban Housing 000016593 260__ $$c1987 000016593 500__ $$a 000016593 520__ $$aAny number of concepts and ideas have been set forth over the past two or three decades to describe and explain the various problems common to urban development in Third World countries. Perhaps foremost among these has been the notion of the urban informal economy, a topic that has generated an enormous literature and that has, despite (or even because of) considerable debate and argument, provided considerable analytic leverage when brought to bear on the topic of Third World urban development and underdevelopment. Yet while this concept has been indeed useful, it may become even more so if linked with two notions from applied economics, namely, the ideas of rent seeking (hereinafter sometimes referred to simply as R-S) and rent avoidance (R-A). 000016593 65017 $$aUrban Studies 000016593 6557_ $$aWorking Paper 000016593 7860_ $$nTexas Papers on Latin America;87-07 000016593 8564_ $$uhttp://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/8957$$zUTEXAS:2152/8957 000016593 909C0 $$Y 000016593 909C4 $$dhttp://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/8957$$pUTEXAS:2152/8957 000016593 980__ $$aUTEXAS