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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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    Mitigating transport congestion in Nairobi

    Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis, 2015
    Traffic congestion is one of the key concerns affecting the performance of the transport system in Nairobi. Population growth in Nairobi will most certainly continue to have adverse implications on the transport system and traffic congestion.
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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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    Solid waste management in Cambodia

    Cambodian Institute for Cooperation and Peace, 2009
    Solid waste management consists of two sectors: the formal operation and the informal scavenging activities. Because scavenging contributes to solid waste management economically and environmentally and also serves as an occupation for some of the most impoverished in the city, recently it has become the focus of scholarly deliberation.
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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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    Moving towards inclusive urban adaptation: approaches to integrating community-based adaptation to climate change at city and national scale

    International Centre for Climate Change and Development, 2014
    Adaptation to climate change in urban areas presents a complex challenge. Consequently, approaches to urban adaptation should be both multilevel and multidimensional. Community-based adaptation (CBA) presents an opportunity for local-level participation in framing adaptation planning and activities, with wider transformative potential for urban governance.
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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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    Emergency relief in informal settlements: proposals for action

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2008
    This document provides a Draft Framework for the Implementation of Informal Settlement Emergency Relief and Assocciated Urban Economy.
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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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