This paper assesses the economic progress that has been made in Hong Kong and Singapore. Unlike many lesser developed countries, Hong Kong and Singapore have achieved remarkable economic growth despite...
This paper discusses possible solutions to the growing problems of formulating policy for urban settlement and investment strategies in Egypt. One approach is to place urban policies within the context...
Available statistics indicate that between one-third and two-thirds of the housing in cities of the developing world is occupied under some form of rental tenure, and there is no reason to expect these...
Available statistics indicate that between one-third and two-thirds of the housing in cities of the developing world is occupied under some form of rental tenure, and there is no reason to expect these...
Although rent control has often been treated as the single most important shelter policy issue by project officers and Bank management, amazingly little work has been done to examine rent control laws...
This paper provides an important step toward identifying areas where official aid flows could be most effectively used to alleviate urbanization pressures in the developing world. It begins by describing...
This paper analyzes how housing demand can be incorporated into a planning model which compares the costs of alternative housing project designs. It discusses a bid-rent framework whereby willingness-to-pay...
This essay examines issues related to China's urban construction and financing. It argues that urban construction in China could be improved through better pricing and management of urban services, which...
Although in the past much emphasis has been placed by borrowers, lenders and project approval entities on the technical design and implementation of water and sanitation projects, the author maintains...
This paper provides a survey of recent research on the economic problems associated with urbanization in Africa. The paper also analyzes African nations' current policies, and the impact of their macroeconomic...
In most developing countries, the inadequacy of land information poses a severe constraint on land transactions, land consolidation, property taxation and public planning of all kinds. Reliable cost data...
Increasingly, World Bank and other financing for projects is channelled through financial intermediaries. Examples of these range from government departments to more formal financial and/or banking institutions...
Recent research on rent control has demonstrated that rent control differs greatly in its effects from place to place, depending on the specific provisions of the rent control laws, their enforcement...
There is increasing awareness that the efficiency of public enterprises in developing countries must be improved. What has been developed in this paper is an analytical checklist or, if one prefers, the...
This paper examines public land development agencies in developing countries and the key determinants of their success. The objective of the paper is to provide operational tools to evaluate the performance...
Contractual savings schemes are frequently mentioned as desirable instruments for the mobilization of financial savings for housing, but comparative data about the characteristics of this special form...
This paper argues in favor of harnessing the human and financial resources of the African city as part of any strategy to ensure greater, and more widespread, economic development. The urban sector can...
A model of employment location, which was developed and applied to Bogota, Colombia, in an earlier World Bank research project, was estimated with a fresh set of data obtained from a sample survey of manufacturing...
This paper analyzes the available data on local finances for Seoul and its satellite cities. The paper documents the trends of revenues and expenditures for 1973-1982 to study the fiscal performance of...
Using the annual manufacturing survey data for 1973-81, this paper documents changes in location patterns of employment in the Seoul region. The analysis shows a strong decentralization trend of manufacturing...