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    Topic Guide: sub-national financing for urban infrastructure

    Evidence on Demand, 2015
    Developing countries are growing faster than in the past, with significantly higher rates of growth than those in the developed world. Growth rates in Africa and India were well above 5% in 2014 and those in Ethiopia and Rwanda were higher than 7.5%.
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    Topic guide: planning for sustainable and inclusive cities in the global South

    Evidence on Demand, 2015
    This new Topic Guide summarises key debates on one of the most important challenges of the 21st century – managing urban growth. The guide argues that urban planning has huge potential to address the major threats to cities – poverty, inequity and environmental risk.
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    Managing urbanization under decentralized governance framework: volume 1

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2002
    Managing Urbanization Under a Decentralized Governance Framework (Volume 1) is the first of two volumes on urban management. It documents the urbanization process in selected Philippine cities in the context of a decentralized environment for governance resulting from the passage of the Local Government Code of 1991.
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    Managing urbanization under a decentralized governance framework (Volume 2)

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2002
    Managing Urbanization Under a Decentralized Governance Framework (Volume 2) is a companion piece to Volume 1, which offers the institutional details of managing and delivering urban services.
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    Closing the urban fiscal gap: some considerations

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 1999
    While urbanization has several advantages, there are also certain problems associated with it. This issue takes a brief look at the urban fiscal gap problem. It also investigates the factors and the interventions that could help overcome the barriers brought about by the fiscal gap.
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    Shelter from the storm: upgrading housing infrastructure in Latin American slums

    International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2013
    Adequate housing, along with food and clothing, is considered by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a basic requirement for achieving a minimum living standard. Yet, inadequate housing, a primary characteristic of slum dwellers, is a problem facing 45 per cent of the global urban population.
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    Rio de Janeiro: favela policies and recent social mobilizations

    Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research, 2013
    Urban poverty is spread out in the whole metropolitan area of Rio de Janeiro. Different to most cities, Rio de Janeiro presents a close proximity between rich and poor neighbourhoods.
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    Strengthening the impacts of economic development strategies on urban poverty

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2008
    South Africa is continuing to urbanise, perhaps not as rapidly as some developing countries but certainly at a rate which has generated a considerable degree of policy anguish over its accompanying rising levels of urban poverty.
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    Transport and the urban poor

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2008
    he aim of the paper is to articulate necessary state interventions to improve transport services for the urban poor in South Africa. The paper forms part of a larger study intended to inform a strategic response to the challenges of the “second economy” in the South African urban areas.
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    Challenges of inclusive cities: making urban spaces and places for all

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2008
    This paper looks at the duality of urban contexts in South Africa that is of unprecedented opulence on the one hand and remarkable deprivation on the other.

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