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Investing in Urban Resilience : Protecting and Promoting Development in a Changing World
World Bank Group - 2016
Cities in the developing world are rapidly expanding, boosting countries' economies, reducing poverty, and fueling … range of shocks and stresses that cities may encounter. The flagship report -- co-authored by the World Bank Group and the … poverty and promoting shared prosperity. And while, over the last five years, the World Bank Group has financed more than USD …
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Financing a Resilient Urban Future : A Policy Brief on World Bank and Global Experience on Financing Climate-Resilient Urban Infrastructure
World Bank Group - 2018
, reflecting differing market, regulatory, and policy circumstances. This policy brief draws on World Bank experience and datasets … infrastructure system operators in different cities around the world, and how these link back to the climate challenges they may face … the World Bank Group …
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Kobe : Creative Reconstruction
World Bank Group (contributor) - World Bank Group - 2018
, they face threats of demographic and technological change that are far from unique to the developed world. The Kobe Case … Center (TDLC) under the auspices of the Social, Urban, Rural, and Resilience Global of the World Bank Group. Its objective is …
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Rising through Cities in Ghana
World Bank Group - 2015
Rapid urbanization in Ghana over the past three decades has coincided with rapid GDP growth. This has helped to create jobs, increase human capital, decrease poverty, and expand opportunities and improve living conditions for millions of Ghanaians. Ghana’s urban transformation has been...
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Catalyzing Private Sector Investment in Climate Smart Cities
World Bank Group - 2020
The objective of this report is to explore innovative financing instruments and approaches for catalyzing private sector financing to fill the climate-smart investment gap in cities. The report reviews the existing literature, highlights key barriers in scaling-up private investment in...
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Global Lessons Learned for Urban Resilience and Regeneration Projects : Informing Turkey's Urban Transformation Process
World Bank Group - 2021
Over the last decade, turkey has initiated several regulatory and institutional reforms to better mitigate and reduce disaster risks, with a focus on seismic risk. The Squatter (Gecekondu) Law No. 775 (1966) was the first regulatory effort to produce housing for low-income groups in Turkey, and...
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Transforming Tanzania's Cities : Harnessing Urbanization for Competitiveness, Resilience, and Livability
World Bank Group - 2021
Tanzania's growth and poverty reduction aspirations hinge on shifting from a reliance on agriculture toward greater productivity. Cities' key role in generating a more competitive economy is already apparent: in 2012, just four Tanzanian cities produced more than half of the country's gross...
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Urban Mobility in African Cities : Developing National Urban Mobility Policy and Delivering at the City Level - Summary Report
World Bank Group - 2022
African cities are growing at an extraordinary rate. Unfortunately, many cities are growing so fast that national, provincial, and city governments cannot manage how they develop or assure the provision of the services people need. This has many negative consequences for national and city...
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Central America Urbanization Review : Making Cities Work for Central America
World Bank Group - 2016
Central America is undergoing an important transition, with urban populations increasingat accelerated speeds, bringing pressing challenges as well as opportunities to boost sustained,inclusive and resilient growth. Today, 59 percent of Central America's population lives in urban areas, but it...
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Building Regulation for Resilience : Managing Risks for Safer Cities
World Bank Group - 2015
The global toll of human suffering and material loss due to disasters has led to growing public concern and expanded institutional response in the form of disaster relief and recovery assistance from individuals, governments, and intergovernmental organizations. Initial humanitarian concern has...
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