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  1. Library Resource
    Training Resources & Tools
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2012
    Uganda, Africa

    Uganda has started its journey into urbanization and economic development. The pace of urbanization is picking up currently at 4.5 percent per year, and likely to accelerate with rising incomes. The economic benefits from urban growth will come from exploiting economies of scale and agglomeration and by increasing fluidity in factor markets that enable substitution between land and non land inputs.

  2. Library Resource

    A Critical Review

    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    May, 2012
    South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa

    This paper provides an overview of land reform in South Africa from 1994 to 2011, with the focus on the land redistribution. The government policies and associated implementation since 1994 have not generated expected social and economic results for a number of reasons. Even where land has been transferred, it appears to have had minimal impact on the livelihoods of beneficiaries, largely because of inappropriate project design, a lack of necessary support services and shortages of working capital, leading to widespread underutilization of land.

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    Summary of Priority Policy Recommendations Drawn form World Bank Studies

    Training Resources & Tools
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    September, 2012
    Vietnam, Eastern Asia, Oceania

    Vietnam's rapid and sustained economic growth and poverty reduction in the last two decades benefitted from the policy and legal reforms embodied in the Land Laws of 1987, 1993 and 2003 and subsequent related legal acts. This note outlines reforms related to four main themes. The first relates to the needed reform for agriculture land use to create opportunity to enhance effectiveness of land use as well as to secure farmers' rights in land use. Prolonging the duration of agricultural land tenure would give land users greater incentives to invest and care for the land.

  4. Library Resource
    August, 2012
    Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa

    This article addresses the problems of
    governance in municipalities in Africa. The concern has been
    to adapt traditional systems of governance to the needs of
    modern urban management. This article investigates the need
    for a new analysis of the twin problems of urban land and
    urban management in sub-Saharan Africa. This need is based
    on the apparent paradox between the dynamic, city-creating
    activities of civil societies in all of these countries, and

  5. Library Resource
    August, 2012
    Eswatini

    Unplanned and unregulated urban
    development is not unique to Swaziland, but addressing the
    issue through direct consultations with beneficiaries is an
    important improvement toward resolving this persistent
    problem. The Swaziland Urban Development Project includes
    standard infrastructure work, such as increasing urban
    roads, rehabilitating and expanding water and sewage
    services, and developing a solid waste facility However, in

  6. Library Resource
    August, 2012
    Latin America and the Caribbean

    The proliferation of urban slums is due
    in large part to obsolete regulatory, legal and
    institutional frameworks at the local level governing land
    use, development standards, land registration and titling.
    These regulations are often exclusionary, insisting on
    development norms and standards that are outside the realm
    of the poor to pay and subdivision procedures are often over
    burdensome, leading to informal land subdivision, thus

  7. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Global

    The purpose of this study is to update
    the review of World Bank experience in Irrigation (IEG 1994)
    and to broaden the scope of evaluation to include all water
    lending for agricultural development. Since that first
    study, the proportion of World Bank lending for agricultural
    water management continued to decline, a trend that started
    in the late 1970s when the sub-sector received 11 percent of
    the lending, is falling to less than 2 percent in 2001-03.

  8. Library Resource
    June, 2012

    Since the early 1980s, China has begun gradually integrating with the global system. In doing so the country has moved toward its own unique brand of market socialism, which recognizes private ownership, and is adopting market institutions and pursuing industrial change within the framework of an urban economic environment. The process of transition has now permeated every corner of Chinese life and no organization has been left untouched.

  9. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Brazil

    This study looks at the experience of integrated urban upgrading in a low-income neighborhood of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Infrastructure and social investments have been made in the community through a government program, with community participation playing a major role in the design and implementation. This approach is now perceived to be highly successful in terms of its implementation and positive impact on living conditions, and will provide the basis for a major state-wide program.

  10. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Global

    By reviewing the Bank's experience
    with shelter lending, this paper seeks to address the
    question of whether the Bank has helped developing countries
    deal with the inevitable problems that arise with
    urbanization, particularly problems with the provision of
    shelter. It reviews the Bank's performance, with a
    focus on identifying lessons learned so that current demands
    can be more effectively addressed. In contrast to earlier

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