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    Towards Inclusive and Sustainable Regional Development

    Reports & Research
    Training Resources & Tools
    December, 2012
    Indonesia, Eastern Asia, Oceania

    In recent years, Indonesia has made great strides in economic growth and development. This growth has been accompanied by rapid urbanization that has transformed Indonesian cities. Urbanization has the potential to boost national economic growth by facilitating the emergence of agglomeration and localization economies. Increasing urbanization presents Indonesia with an opportunity to leverage the transformation taking place to ensure that it is harnessed for economic growth and, more importantly, sustained improvements in the quality of life of its community members.

  2. Library Resource
    May, 2012

    The workshop brings diverse perspectives
    from outside the World Bank, providing a forum in which to
    exchange ideas and debate in the course of developing the
    World Development Report (WDR). Participants at the 2006
    Berlin Workshop gathered to discuss challenges and successes
    pertaining to agriculture and development. Agriculture is
    the major sector contributing to economic development in
    many poor countries. Three out of every four poor people in

  3. Library Resource
    July, 2015

    This issue includes the following
    headings: mass rapid transit: a tool for urban expansion;
    financing: beyond sovereign guarantees; and low-income
    housing: lessons from Latin America.

  4. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Global

    Interest in farmland is rising. And,
    given commodity price volatility, growing human and
    environmental pressures, and worries about food security,
    this interest will increase, especially in the developing
    world. One of the highest development priorities in the
    world must be to improve smallholder agricultural
    productivity, especially in Africa. Smallholder productivity
    is essential for reducing poverty and hunger, and more and

  5. Library Resource
    February, 2013
    Sudan

    This study responds to the need for
    information and analysis on the urban sector in Sudan, to
    inform the Bank's policy dialogue with the Government
    of Sudan (GoS) on urban and local government issues, and to
    inform the design of future Bank assistance. The first phase
    of this analytical exercise, which is the focus of this
    report, develops an overview of the urban landscape. The
    report is structured as follows: section two describes the

  6. Library Resource
    March, 2012

    Today, 370 million people live in cities
    in earthquake prone areas and 310 million in cities with
    high probability of tropical cyclones. By 2050, these
    numbers are likely to more than double. Mortality risk
    therefore is highly concentrated in many of the world s
    cities and economic risk even more so. This paper discusses
    what sets hazard risk in urban areas apart, provides
    estimates of valuation of hazard risk, and discusses

  7. Library Resource
    April, 2014
    Pakistan

    Cities' development matters to
    Pakistan. It is central to economic growth, job creation and
    quality of life. This is also one of the core themes in the
    2011 Government of Pakistan Framework for Economic Growth
    (FEG). This paper explores the conditions for
    growth-enhancing spatial change in Pakistan s cities.
    Cities' development matters to Pakistan. Two strands of
    analysis are developed. First, it reviews the performance

  8. Library Resource
    January, 2015

    This paper uses farm panel data from
    China to examine the dynamics of land transactions, machine
    investments, and the demand for machine services. Recently,
    China's agriculture has experienced a large expansion
    of machine rentals and machine services provided by
    specialized agents, which has contributed to mechanization
    of agricultural production. The empirical results show that
    an increase in nonagricultural wage rates leads to expansion

  9. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Uganda

    This is the second part of land studies
    on Northern Uganda designed to inform the Peace, Recovery
    and Development Plan (PRDP). This second part of the study,
    undertaken during the second half of 2007 in the Lango and
    Acholi regions, builds on the first phase conducted in 2006
    in the Teso region. This second study has been designed to
    present a more quantitative analysis of trends on disputes
    and claims on land before displacement, during displacement

  10. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Ethiopia

    Over the coming decades, land policy and
    administration, for urban as well as rural areas, will be
    critical for Ethiopia's development. The vast majority
    of people making up the Federal Democratic Republic of
    Ethiopia's (FDRE) predominantly agricultural economy
    live in rural areas. Finally, land policies and
    administration can contribute significantly to the
    objectives of promoting gender equality and protecting

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