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Searching with a thematic focus on Poverty, Urban poverty in Philippines

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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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    The urgent need to increase baseload generating capacity in Mindanao

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2012
    The electric power crisis in Mindanao in the summer of 2012 and the subsequent precariously low power reserves primarily resulted from insufficient baseload generating capacity in the region.
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    Are we building competitive and liveable cities? Guidelines for developing eco-efficient and socially inclusive infrastructure

    United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 2011
    This guideline jointly published by The UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), and the UN Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT), in partnership with the Urban Design Lab of the Earth Institute, Columbia University, provides practical tools for city planners and decision makers to reform urban pl
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    In focus: poverty and the city

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2005
    By 2050, two-thirds of the world’s people will live in cities. Such growth is bound to outstrip the capacity of poorly resourced governments and feeble urban economies to absorb new residents and provide them with adequate jobs, shelter and services.

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