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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

    Benchmarking Study

    Training Resources & Tools
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2015
    Romania, Europe, Central Asia

    This report is about Romanis's Green growth benchmarking, which is a country-level diagnostic that helps define a country’s strengths and vulnerabilities in adopting a path to greener growth. The process of defining a country’s green growth path starts with an analysis aimed at mapping the country’s current position on a multi-dimensional green-growth chart, with each dimension defined by an indicator of green growth.

  3. Library Resource

    A Public-Private Partnerships Journal

    Reports & Research
    Journal Articles & Books
    June, 2015

    The latest issue of Handshake, focused on public-private partnerships in the Innovation. “An age of constant invention naturally begets one of constant failure,”the New York Times Magazine declared in a recent story called “Welcometo the Failure Age.” Its core premise—that innovation is inextricably linked with failure—may be a fresh insight for the high-tech era, but has long been understood by those who work in infrastructure. To state the obvious:for those of us in infrastructure PPPs, failure is not a novel concept.Innovation is.

  4. Library Resource

    Diagnostics and Guidelines for Sservice Delivery in Urban Areas

    Reports & Research
    Training Resources & Tools
    May, 2016

    Urban sanitation remains a significant challenge for most low- and middle-income countries. While sanitation coverage has been increasing across both the 48 least developed countries (LDCs) and developing regions as a whole, progress has been relatively slow. In many cities, even where improved on-site facilities are used to contain excreta, the level of quality and access to services for the emptying, conveyance, treatment, and disposal of the resulting fecal sludge is usually limited. These services are collectively called fecal sludge management (FSM) services.

  5. Library Resource

    Focus on China and Africa

    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    April, 2015
    China, Africa, Eastern Asia, Oceania

    This study briefly summarizes the development experiences of special economic zones in China and Africa, the lessons that Africa can learn from China, and the preliminary results of the Chinese investments in special economic zones in Africa. The study makes recommendations on how to unleash the power of special economic zones and industrial zones in Africa through strategically leveraging the Chinese experiences.

  6. Library Resource

    Inputs for an Agenda and Strategy

    Reports & Research
    Training Resources & Tools
    May, 2015
    Brazil

    In less than fifty years, Brazil evolved from a predominantly rural society and economy to a highly urbanized country in which 85 percent of its people now live in urban areas and more than 90 percent of the country’s GDP is generated in the cities. This rapid urbanization process was characterized by a lack of planning and an enduring framework of inequality, resulting in high degrees of concentrated poverty in the urban areas. Much of this urbanization has taken place in metropolitan regions (MRs).

  7. Library Resource
    July, 2013
    Central America, Guatemala

    This regional study encompasses three
    Central American countries: Nicaragua, Guatemala and
    Honduras. The focus of this report is Guatemala. The study
    is motivated by several factors: First is the recognition
    that sub-national regions are becoming increasingly
    heterogeneous, and economically differentiated as part of
    ongoing processes of development and diversification, with
    some areas advancing, and others being left behind. Second

  8. Library Resource
    April, 2016

    This report analyzes the experience of
    Ethiopia with the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP)
    process. The focus of the report is on evaluating the
    performance of the World Bank in supporting the PRSP
    initiative, not on appraising the authorities’ policies. The
    emphasis of the report is on the formulation and
    implementation of the PRSP until the time of the evaluation
    team’s mission to Ethiopia in mid-2003. The report is

  9. Library Resource
    July, 2013
    Central America, Honduras

    This regional study encompasses three
    Central American countries: Nicaragua, Guatemala, and
    Honduras. The focus of this report is Honduras. The
    objective of the study is to understand how broad-based
    economic growth can be stimulated and sustained in rural
    Central America. The study identifies "drivers" of
    sustainable rural growth and poverty reduction. Drivers are
    defined as the assets and combinations of assets needed by

  10. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    China

    Urban Development Investment
    Corporations (UDICs) have over the years become the central
    pillar in the local government drive to build infrastructure
    in China, where local governments are not allowed to engage
    in direct market borrowing. UDICs were established during
    the early 1990s when local governments were under great
    pressure to both build municipal infrastructure and to
    reform the role of the government in infrastructure

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