Targeting the centre and (least) poor: Evidence from urban Lahore, Pakistan
研究了巴基斯坦拉合尔城市贫民窟中公共品的分配与政治，发现公共品主要提供给中心贫民窟而非边缘贫民窟，且政治家倾向于向富裕家庭分配资源而非通过中间人。
Using the case of Pakistan, this article explores the distribution and politics of public goods provision in urban slums. Across slums, we find that public goods are mainly provided to households located in central slums rather than those in the urban periphery. Within slums, we find politicians target spending towards wealthy households but do not go through brokers, unlike the more-studied case of India. Overall, the article shows how electoral incentives in Pakistan are biased against programmatic public goods provision for the urban poor. Our results then point to variation in patronage politics among slums in the Global South.