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    Operations and management of township nodal developments: Khayelitsha Business District case study

    Urban LandMark, 2010
    Khayelitsha is a typical South African apartheid urban area, situated away from Cape Town’s affluent areas, geographically isolated, and located with other similar places in a ‘poverty zone’ between a bleak section of the False Bay coastline and the N2 corridor. The Khayelitsha Business District (KBD) development is one of the first cases of its kind in South Africa.
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    Township regeneration in small towns: a case study

    Urban LandMark, 2011
    Small towns have an important role to play in rural development. There is renewed national discussion about the ways in which municipalities can promote and facilitate small town development. These include integrating the regeneration of previously marginalised township areas with broader development plans for small towns.
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    Developing township regeneration strategies: a case study

    Urban LandMark, 2011
    TTRI initiative is a partnership to promote township development in South Africa through the training of township managers and practitioners. The current paper reflects some practical experiences in generating Township Regeneration Strategy (TRS) in the framework of TTRI.
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    Energy and tax reforms: household analysis from Pakistan

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2014
    Pakistan’s economy has been confronted with low growth equilibrium since 2008. The national income has been growing at a dismal average annual rate of 2.9% since 2009. The investment to GDP ratio is one of the lowest across the Asian countries and was recorded at 14.8% in 2013.
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    Energy and tax reforms: firm-level analysis from Pakistan

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2014
    Pakistan’s economy has been confronted with low growth equilibrium since 2008. The national income has been growing at a dismal average annual rate of 2.9% since 2009. The investment to GDP ratio is one of the lowest across the Asian countries and was recorded at 14.8% in 2013.
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    Cities and climate change: National governments enabling local action

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2014
    This publication explores how enabling policy frameworks at the national level can support critical urban action to combat climate change.
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    Development of an urban development component for the Second Economy Strategy Project: an initiative of the Presidency

    Urban LandMark, 2008
    Both in research and in practice there have been many ideas and interventions aimed at restructuring cities. In South Africa various programmes have been implemented to combat apartheid city form and address the needs of the urban poor. Amongst these the big projects and flagship programmes have had considerable success.
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    Application of regulatory impact analysis methods to proposed regulatory interventions relating to the urban land market

    Urban LandMark, 2007
    Regulatory Impact Analysis of two proposed regulatory interventions in the urban land market: the National Department of Housing’s draft Inclusionary Housing Policy (IHP) and a proposal for the creation of a Housing Development Agency (HDA) was the aim of this consultation.
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    The recognition and enhancement of socially dominated urban land markets

    Urban LandMark, 2008
    The core assumption of the ‘making the markets work for the poor’ approach is that since markets are such powerful and even ubiquitous forces, maximum value in assisting the poor is usually derived from either resolving market failures, or leveraging the operation of existing functioning markets towards the interests of the poor, or enhancing poor people’s effectiveness in par
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    International land banking practices: considerations for Gauteng province

    Urban LandMark, 2007
    Gauteng province experienced steady economic growth in the past decade, but it continues to suffer problems of poverty and inequality. In-migration is increasing and creating great pressure on an already heavily populated province. As a result, land in Gauteng is at a premium. Land is a limited resource and one that is growing in cost.

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