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    Scrutinizing urbanization challenges in the Philippines through the infrastructure lens

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2014
    Managing urban growth in countries requires that leaders plan ahead using national physical plans that, among others, safeguard land for utilities and physical infrastructure decades ahead, deliberately configures transport networks (including strategic seaports, controlled expressways and, if necessary, railway extension to suburbs) in order to induce factor mobility, and actively targets the
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    Addressing the Urban Challenge in Integral and Inclusive Ways

    Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2015
    Integrated urban environmental plans developed in different Latin American countries show how to reduce systemic challenges in urban areas. Overcoming multi-dimensional urban issues requires a holistic view that includes channels for popular participation, higher level government support and cross-sector collaboration.
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    Helpdesk report: Urban poverty in Nepal

    Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, 2015
    This Helpdesk Report responds to the following query: What are the issues and trends in relation to urban poverty in Nepal? Include data on key trends as well as a qualitative overview of the issues pertaining to informal settlements, housing and access to services that make poor people more or less vulnerable to hazards.
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    Making space for women in urban governance? Leadership and claims-making in a Kerala slum

    Environment and Planning A, 2015
    This paper looks at the role of gender in the shaping and exercise of political authority. Its empirical focus is a slum in central Trivandrum, Kerala's capital city, which is undergoing a phased process of formalisation and rebuilding funded through a flagship Indian national programme, the JNNURM.
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    Constitutional Reforms and Access to HIV Services for Women in Low-resource Settings in Nairobi, Kenya

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015
    Four years after the approval of the new Constitution in Kenya in 2010, and one year after the devolution of health services in 2013, this case study examines: the difficulties that poor women and girls living in slum areas face in getting access to HIV services, including anti-retroviral treatment (ART); their perception of how devolution has affected HIV and other health-related services; and
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    Reimagining India’s Urban Future: A framework for securing high-growth, low-carbon, climate resilient urban development in India

    Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2015
    This paper reviews the current state of the literature on Indian urbanisation to analyse existing urban development trajectories at the state level.
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    Topic Guide: Planning and financing of the effective maintenance of infrastructure

    Evidence on Demand, 2015
    The purpose of this Topic Guide is give DFID advisers and programme managers sufficient awareness and understanding of current key issues relating to the planning and financing for effective maintenance of infrastructure. The guide is brief and therefore only introduces each key issue.
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    Building reciprocal rural-urban linkages through infrastructure investment and development

    Evidence on Demand, 2015
    This Topic Guide from Evidence on Demand presents evidence of where infrastructure has been used to build rural-urban linkages that have promoted socially just, environmentally sustainable and resilient outcomes. Written by the Development Planning Unit at University College London (UCL), it focuses on the two most rapidly urbanising continents of the world: Asia and Africa.
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    Political Economy Constraints for Urban Development

    Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, 2015
    This Helpdesk Report responds to the following query: Political economy constraints for urban development: What are the principal political economy constraints to promoting more functional, inclusive and economically viable urban areas? What are the main gaps in evidence and knowledge on the extent of these constraints and how they should be best tackled?
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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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