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Gabriella Carolini

Gabriella Y. Carolini, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
B.A., Columbia College, Columbia University; M.A., University of Oxford; Ph.D., Columbia University

 

 

 

Contact Information

Civic Square Building, room 353

Phone (848) 932-2787

Fax (732) 932-6564

E-mail carolini@rutgers.edu

 

Research Interests

International development planning in vulnerable settlements

  • Financing and budgeting for public investments
  • Housing, basic services, and public health systems
  • Public sector accounting and fiscal policy
  • International financial architecture and sustainability

 

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Publications and Activities
  • Carolini, G. (2011) "Framing Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Needs Among Female-Headed Households in Periurban Maputo, Mozambique". American Journal of Public Health. e-View Ahead of Print.
  • Carolini, G. (2010) "The Tools of Whose Trade? How international accounting guidelines are failing governments in the global South", in Third World Quarterly, Vol. 31, No.3: 469-483.
  • Carolini, G. (2008) “Process and Product - Organizations of the Urban Poor and Equitable Urban Development”, chapter in The new global frontier: cities, poverty, and environment in the 21st century, Earthscan: London. 
  • Carolini, G. (2008) “Are we ready?”, published in Barefoot & Prada – Architects and planners, the urban poor, and the Millennium City, eds. P. Garau, C. Scandaletti, and A. Zaccagnini.Officina Edizioni, Rome.
  • Carolini, G. (2006) Community Organizations of the Urban Poor: Realizing the MDGs and Planning for Urban Population Growth, Background report for UN Population Fund’s State of the World’s Population 2007 Report.
  • Garau, P., Sclar, E., and Carolini, G. (lead authors). (2005) A Home in the City – The Report of the UN Millennium Project Task Force on Improving the Lives of Slum Dwellers; Earthscan: London.
  • Garau, P., Sclar, E., and Carolini. G. (2005) “The 21st Century Health Challenge of Slums and Cities”, in The Lancet, March, Vol. 365.
  • Carolini, G. (2005) Accounting for the MDGs, Report prepared for International Workshop on “Achieving the Millennium Goals: Mobilization of Resources for Human Settlements in the Cities of Middle-Income Countries”, Sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation: New York.
  • Garau, P., Sclar, E., and Carolini. G. (2004) “You Can’t Have One Without the Other: Environmental Health Is Urban Health”, in American Journal of Public Health, November, 94:1848.
  • Carolini, G. (2004) As Good as it Gets? Report on U.S. Housing Finance System, prepared for UN-HABITAT’s Global Report on Human Settlements 2005.
  • Largura, L., Carolini, G., Garau, P., and Sclar, E. (2004) Planning the Sustainable City – A case study of Curitiba, Brazil, Report prepared for Norwegian Ministry of Environment and UN-CSD 12.
  • Carolini, G. (2001) Investment Behavior of Emerging Market Institutional Investors, Report prepared for Gottschalk, R. “International Lenders’ and Investors’ Behaviour: What the markets tell us we didn’t know”, Institute of Development Studies, Working Paper 193, University of Sussex, April 2002.

 

Current Projects

KaTembe, Mozambique

  • Mapping community assets and investments
  • Water, Sanitation, Waste Management and Hygiene survey
  • Participatory budgeting

 

International Development Interest Group (IDIG)
http://policy.rutgers.edu/idig/

 

Profile

Gabriella Y. Carolini's research is on the dynamic relationship between social investments and current fiscal policies and public sector accounting practices.  Social investments of particular interest in this regard include those targeting slum upgrading, affordable housing, public health systems, and the adaptive capacity of communities of the urban poor to respond to growing environmental vulnerabilities. Gabriella has used Brazil for empirical evidence, and is currently researching trends in Mozambique, but her wider work is also informed by South Africa, Kenya, Argentina, India, Sweden, and of course, the United States. She served as an advisor and project director of a summit on urban development innovations for the Rockefeller Foundation and Center for Sustainable Urban Development at Columbia University’s Earth Institute, a senior associate to the UN Millennium Project’s Task Force on slums (for whose final report she was a lead author), and a political-economic and financial consultant for firms in the UK and New York. She earned a bachelor’s degree in International Relations from Columbia, a Masters degree in Development Studies from Oxford, and graduated from Columbia with a PhD in urban planning.

 

Read our recent interview with Professor Carolini about her research in Mozambique (2011)

 

Complete Curriculum Vitae (C.V.)