Cities are experiencing growth across the world and constantly striving to meet the challenges imposed by growth pressures. Cities in developing world are growing at a much rapid pace and they would require much needed forward planning and financial strength to sustain it. In a way, growth of...

This essay is an entry in the forthcoming Encyclopedia of International Economic Law from Edward Elgar Publishing, edited by Krista Nadakavukaren Schefer and Thomas Cottier and due to be published in 2016. Development is about aspiration — our longing for a better life as individuals and as a...

Gemessen an den jeweiligen Bedürfnissen der Bevölkerung, können Standards in Ent-wicklungsländern sowohl zu hoch als auch zu niedrig sein. Beides ist möglich. Zu nied-rige Standards sind oft darauf zurückzuführen, dass es an Verfahren fehlt, die kollekti-ves Handeln ermöglichen....

This paper offers a concise survey on the literature of growth empirics applying to DCs. It is argued that there is a number of important stylised facts of economic growth relevant to DCs which are not included in the corresponding lists of Kaldor and Romer. In contrary to the usual procedure,...