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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
    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.

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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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