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    Macrodynamics of globalisation, uneven urban development and the commodification of water

    Law, Social Justice and Global Development Journal, 2008
    This paper argues that understanding the link between global capitalist crisis macrodynamics and water commodification trends requires a discussion of the crucial intervening public management strategy, namely the decentralisation of service delivery functions without decentralisation of sufficient resources.
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    Improvement of urban environmental sanitation services (UESS) in Ban Hatsady Tai, Vientiane City, Lao PDR

    NCCR North South, 2005
    This paper looks at the Household-Centred Environmental Sanitation Planning (HCES) as an approach to environmental sanitation.
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    Legalise informal settlements to give poor families the right to demand basic services

    Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2007
    Informal settlements have proliferated in Afghan cities as a result of conflict and drought. The fall of the Taliban in 2001 increased the spread of urbanisation due to returning refugees seeking employment. Informal settlements are built on public land, without legal rights and government agencies have found it difficult to extend basic services to these poor urban communities.
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    The public governance system: building dream cities in the Philippines

    Center for International Private Enterprise, 2008
    Since 1986, the Philippines has struggled to establish a democracy capable of addressing the needs of all levels of society. Political turmoil has shaken public confidence in governing institutions and impeded improvements in the quality of life. This paper examines the impact of the public governance system (PGS), in transforming the management of cities in the Philippines.
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    Empowering the poor through property rights

    Mercatus Center, George Mason University, 2008
    This paper describes, contextualises and analyses the experience of the Bento Rubião Foundation in relation to its right to land project.
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    Urbanisation and informality in Africa's housing markets

    Mercatus Center, George Mason University, 2008
    As Africa’s slums expand, international organisations, NGOs, and governments themselves call for strong public-sector action to deal with the problems in these settlements and to limit their expansion. This paper suggests that government intervention in African housing markets may have contributed significantly to the growth of informal settlements.
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    Urbanisation, global environmental change, and sustainable development in Latin America

    Inter American Institute for Global Change Research, Brazil, 2008
    Despite the central role of urban areas in socio-economic and geo-political change processes at the local, regional, and global level, as well as in the regional and global biophysical processes, little attention has been paid so far to the complex and dynamic interactions between urban areas and the biophysical and chemical processes of global environmental changes.
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    Digital governance in municipalities worldwide

    United Nations Online Network in Public Administration and Finance, 2008
    This document presents the findings of the worldwide survey of municipal digital governance 2007. The survey evaluates 86 large municipalities which have official websites and ranks them on a global scale based on their scores in the areas of:
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    The EMPOWERS approach to water governance: guidelines , methods and tools

    EMPOWERS Partnership Programme, 2007
    Water is an increasingly scarce and contested resource around the world, particularly in the Middle East. There is general agreement about the need to improve water governance - the process of making and implementing decisions about water.
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    Urban development strategy for Bihar: a management perspective

    Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2008
    Bihar is among the least urbanised states in India with a level of urbanisation just above 10 per cent in 2001. This study suggests a four-stage strategy for the urban development of Bihar. The stages are

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