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    Engines of Growth and Prosperity for Developing Countries?

    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2008

    This paper reviews the evidence about the effects of urbanization and cities on productivity and economic growth in developing countries using a consistent theoretical framework. Just like in developed economies, there is strong evidence that cities in developing countries bolster productive efficiency. Regarding whether cities promote self-sustained growth, the evidence is suggestive but ultimately inconclusive. These findings imply that the traditional agenda of aiming to raise within-city efficiency should be continued.

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    May, 2014

    The accumulation of decent housing matters both because of the difference it makes to living standards and because of its centrality to economic development. The consequences for living standards are far-reaching. In addition to directly conferring utility, decent housing improves health and enables children to do homework. It frees up women's time and enables them to participate in the labor market. More subtly, a home and its environs affect identity and self-respect.

  3. Library Resource
    May, 2012

    This publication offers crucial lessons
    for policy makers and development experts who may be
    considering using small area poverty maps as tools of
    economic development and helps add to our array of tools for
    dealing with the political economy issues of poverty. It
    represents a major contribution to a little understood
    aspect of the well-known adage "location, location,
    location," demonstrating that the conceptualization of

  4. Library Resource
    March, 2013

    Danang City is the capital and economic
    hub of the central region of Vietnam. As in all of the major
    urban centers of the country, Danang is currently
    experiencing rapid urbanization fueled by consistent
    economic growth and the resultant steady increase in
    population, much through rural-urban migration. For this
    reason, central and city government has been increasingly
    concerned with the urban development and housing sectors.

  5. Library Resource
    March, 2013
    Senegal

    This report describes a pilot study of
    natural risk hazards in the peri-urban extension areas of
    the Dakar Metropolitan Area, Senegal. The area subject of
    this study stretches across 580 square kilometers, covering
    less than 1 percent of the national territory, but housing
    about 50 percent of Senegal's urban population. Much of
    the rapid population growth of the Dakar Metropolitan Area
    is taking place beyond the boundaries of the Department of

  6. Library Resource
    March, 2014
    Ghana

    The aim of the scoping study was to gain
    an understanding of the productive activities slum dwellers
    engage in that rely on energy services and the potentials
    and challenges of slums in Ghana regarding access to modern
    energy services and income generation from productive
    activities. The objective of the ESMED-EAfUP (Energy Sector
    Management Assistance Program - ESMAP/SME Development -
    Energy Access for the Urban Poor) programme is 'to

  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
    April, 2014
    Georgia

    This review analyzes the profile, trends
    and challenges of Georgia's changing urban landscape
    since independence in 1991 and provides policy suggestions
    to facilitate the economic transition of the country through
    its cities. In its analysis and subsequent recommendations
    on policy interventions, this report draws on a program of
    diagnostics called the 'Urbanization Review' (UR).
    The UR diagnostic is based on three main pillars of urban

  9. Library Resource
    April, 2014
    Africa

    The accumulation of decent housing
    matters both because of the difference it makes to living
    standards and because of its centrality to economic
    development. The consequences for living standards are
    far-reaching. In addition to directly conferring utility,
    decent housing improves health and enables children to do
    homework. It frees up women's time and enables them to
    participate in the labor market. More subtly, a home and its

  10. Library Resource
    March, 2013
    Global

    Land policy, administration and
    management are areas of strong client demand for technical
    advice and operational support. This review sought to help
    the Bank better position itself to present coherent advice
    on policy, institutional arrangements and practice. The
    potential implications are a lowering of reputational risk
    to the Bank; greater efficiency in the process including
    joint data gathering; and building of greater momentum and

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