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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    May, 2014
    Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa

    This paper focuses on three interrelated questions on urbanization and the geography of development. First, although we herald cities with their industrial bases as "engines of growth," does industrialization in fact drive urbanization? While such relationships appear in the data, the process is not straightforward. Among developing countries, changes in income or industrialization correlate only weakly with changes in urbanization. This suggests that policy and institutional factors may also influence the urbanization process.

  2. Library Resource
    July, 2014
    Eswatini

    This history illustrates a number of
    themes encountered in Swaziland that faces developing
    countries and their external partners in Africa and beyond.
    Firstly, the history relates the experience of a small and
    comparatively insular country in addressing complex
    challenges deriving from rapid urbanization and, as a
    result, the growing need to adapt governance systems and
    structures. A second key issue is the challenge that small

  3. Library Resource
    December, 2014
    Benin

    Benin has made substantial progress over
    the past decade in reinforcing macroeconomic stability,
    which has laid the foundation for modest but accelerating
    growth. After averaging less than 3.7 percent from
    2007-2011, GDP growth rose to 5.4 percent in 2012 and
    reached 5.6 percent in 2013. Growth is expected to remain
    strong at 5.5 percent in 2014. Benin s enhanced growth
    performance has been supported by ongoing efficiency

  4. Library Resource
    February, 2014
    Ethiopia

    This paper evaluates the impact of
    strengthening legal rights on the types of economic
    opportunities that are pursued. Ethiopia changed its family
    law, requiring both spouses' consent in the
    administration of marital property, removing the ability of
    a spouse to deny permission for the other to work outside
    the home, and raising women's minimum age of marriage.
    Thus both access to resources and the removal of

  5. Library Resource
    December, 2014
    Africa

    This is the second edition of the 2003
    paper entitled "Facilitation of transport and trade in
    Sub-Saharan Africa : a review of international legal
    instruments - Treaties, conventions, protocols, decisions,
    directives." Three major reasons motivated this update
    and an expansion of its scope. First, African countries are
    increasingly cooperating, especially in the area of
    corridors, to achieve full connectivity, mobility and

  6. Library Resource
    March, 2014
    Rwanda

    Although the potentially negative
    impacts of credit constraints on economic development have
    long been discussed conceptually, empirical evidence for
    Africa remains limited. This study uses a direct elicitation
    approach for a national sample of Rwandan rural households
    to assess empirically the extent and nature of credit
    rationing in the semi-formal sector and its impact using an
    endogenous sample separation between credit-constrained and

  7. Library Resource
    February, 2014
    Mali, Western Africa

    This paper presents a new type of land
    market analysis relevant to cities with plural tenure
    systems as in West Africa. The methodology hinges on a
    systemic analysis of land delivery channels, which helps to
    show how land is initially made available for circulation,
    how tenure can be formalized incrementally, and the
    different means whereby households can access land. The
    analysis is applied to the area of Bamako in Mali, where

  8. Library Resource
    August, 2014
    Egypt

    The main objective of the Egypt Public
    Land Management Strategy is to provide the Government of
    Egypt (GOE) with practical and politically feasible policy
    recommendations to reform existing public land management
    policies and practices in the aim of improving the business
    climate in Egypt. This study is presented in two volumes:
    Volume one with the main policy note, supported by Volume
    two with background notes on access to public land by

  9. Library Resource
    February, 2014
    Mozambique

    This brief includes the following
    headings: rationale, objectives, and basic features of the
    1997 land law; acquiring land-use rights; obstacles to
    transferring urban land-use rights; promote the productive
    use of Direito de Uso e Aproveitamento dos Terras, or
    DUATs; and enforce the land tax.

  10. Library Resource
    December, 2014
    South Sudan, Sudan

    South Sudan is a new country of 10.5
    million people that has just emerged from conflict and still
    facing challenges with recovery and development. Although
    economic disparities, political exclusion and deprivation in
    the distribution of political and economic power between the
    northern and southern parts of then united Sudan were often
    tendered as the proximal causes of the conflict, at the
    center of the prolonged civil war was the struggle for

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