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    Slum upgrading - lessons learned from Brazil

    Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo / Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), 2012
    Over the past decade, Brazil has made important progress in legitimizing illegal settlements in big cities.
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    MWSS privatization: Implications on the price of water, the poor, and the environment

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2000
    Although the Metro Manila Water and Sewerage System (MWSS) has the responsibility for providing urban water and sewerage services in Metro Manila, actual service coverage has been low particularly for sewerage and quality of service has been poor despite subsidies from the national government.
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    Open cities: the case of Montevideo

    2015
    This paper argues that policy objectives, resources, availability of data and technology play a role determining how open data ecosystems work. For open data policies to become an enabler of a more inclusive and open city different incentives and resources are needed.
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    Mega-cities & infrastructure in Latin America: what its people think

    2014
    In late 2013, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) conducted a multisectoral public opinion survey in five Latin American cities to better understand the way citizens perceive the quality of life, the needs of urban infrastructure and the standards of public services.
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    Adaptation to climate change in megacities of Latin America

    United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2014
    There is broad consensus that global climate change is inevitable. Its effects are manifested, among others, in a rise in average annual temperatures, the impacts of which also affect Latin America. Since Latin America and the Caribbean is one of the world’s most urbanized regions, urban spaces provide an important research area.
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    Korean version of new town development

    Korea Development Institute, 2012
    For the last six decades, Korea has experienced very rapid urban growth. In the urbanization process, cities experienced severe urban sprawl in order to accommodate immigrants from rural areas, and this urban spatial expansion changed the urban lifestyle. This ‘rapid urban growth’ still exists in some urban areas now.
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    Development of airport and improvement of external debt management skills of Bangladesh

    Korea Development Institute, 2014
    The Bangladesh government plans to implement a 10-year development plan to vitalize its tourism industry. To this end, a project for establishment of infrastructure is desperately required. In particular, the importance of air traffic is substantial as railway and expressway are not well developed. The Bangladesh government plans to construct a new airport that can accommodate 30 million
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    Best experiences from public transport reform

    Korea Development Institute, 2013
    Korea has introduced an urban rail system to provide high-capacity public transport services for its metropolises that are ever expanding and undergoing densification. The nation has also implemented structural overhaul of the bus industry, ensuring that city buses are fulfilling their function as a highly efficient and demand-responsive mode of road transport.
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    Airport policy and infrastructure development

    Korea Development Institute, 2013
    Korea’s airports achieved remarkable growth during the 1980s, powered by economic progress, reaching their current state.  Airport development was vitalized with the increase of GDP, which called for increased air transport demands. However, the insufficiency of developmental structures and unheeded expans in of airport facility and area caused problems.
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    Rethinking government's role in urban infrastructure

    1999
    By 2020, it is estimated that more than half of the population of developing countries would be urban-based. The demographic shift implies an increased demand for urban transport, water and wastewater services, basic education and health, sanitation and waste disposal facilities. Clearly, urban growth has further increased the demand for basic infrastructure.

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