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Metropolitan industrial clusters : patterns and processes
Koo, Jun - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523362
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Enhancing Urban Resilience in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area
World Bank - 2017
The Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA) is one of the fastest-growing city regions in West Africa. GAMA is exposed to recurrent shocks and stresses on top of numerous developmental challenges and climate change issues that threaten development gains. The deadly floods of June 2015 are a...
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India - Rural Governments and Service Delivery : Volume 1. Executive Summary
World Bank - 2012
This study addresses the roles of different levels of government and the institutional arrangements involved in the provision of key services. The focus throughout is on disadvantaged rural areas. The study demonstrates the approach for a small number of sectors that have been "devolved" to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012553147
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India - Rural governments and Service Delivery : Volume 2. Note
World Bank - 2012
This study addresses the roles of different levels of government and the institutional arrangements involved in the provision of key services. The focus throughout is on disadvantaged rural areas. The study demonstrates the approach for a small number of sectors that have been "devolved" to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012553148
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Procurement and Service Delivery : An Overview of Efforts to Improve Governance of Public Procurement at Local Levels in South Asia
World Bank - 2013
Over the past decade, the overly centralized governance structures commonly found across South Asia have begun to …-based organizations. This has led to greater participation of ordinary citizens in governance and public decision-making. The move to … the potential for establishing direct accountability of governance mechanisms to citizens. It also raises a number of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012557903
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An Assignment of Local Service Delivery and Local Governments in Kenya
World Bank - 2013
The report examines the local government sector in Kenya, the reform and decentralization process, and the dynamics of local service delivery. The report is organized in three parts. The first, traces the broad contours of the reform process in Kenya: the inter-governmental system, local...
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Kazakhstan - Governance and Service Delivery : A Diagnostic Report
World Bank - 2013
and social benefits of improving governance and service delivery - and of the consequences of not doing so - is therefore …
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Work, wages, and welfare in a developing metropolis : consequences of growth in Bogotá, Columbia
Mohan, Rakesh - 1986 - 1. print
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In search of land and housing in the new South Africa : the case of Ethembalethu
Berrisford, Stephen (contributor) - 2008
This study describes the saga of how one community, instead of squatting in an informal settlement or invading a new plot of land, attempted to buy land legally and build their own houses in a peri-urban area, using their own savings. The Ethembalethu story draws attention to the many challenges...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521443
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India - Vulnerability of Kolkata metropolitan area to increased precipitation in a changing climate
World Bank - 2012
This study aims to strengthen the understanding of the vulnerability of Kolkata from increased precipitation caused by climate change effects with a specific goal to: compile a data base with past weather related information and damage caused by extreme weather related episodes; develop...
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