Argentina’s path to economic prosperity is through efficient, sustainable and economically thriving cities. Not only are cities a spatial concentration of people, but also they generate agglomeration economies...
Argentina es un país de ciudades con una gran diversidad geográfica, donde un noventa por ciento de la población vive en zonas urbanas. Las ciudades son clave para el crecimiento económico; concentran...
The objective of the technical assistance was to provide policy advice to the Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD) and the Kathmandu Valley Development Authority (KVDA) for strengthening metropolitan planning...
Bangladesh seeks to attain middle-income status by 2021, the 50th anniversary of its independence. To accelerate growth enough to do so, it will need to undergo a structural transformation that will change...
Nepal is undergoing two momentous transformations-from a rural to an urbanizing economy and from a unitary to a federal state. This book aims at understanding the first of these two transitions: Nepal's...
The study provides an overview of the multi-faceted and spatial dimensions of urban poverty in Ethiopia drawing on the 1999 household survey data. First, the study observes urban poverty through a spatial...
In countries where urbanization is a relatively new phenomenon, like Tanzania, building the empirical base to inform urban policies is a key challenge faced by government agencies. The study addresses...