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challenges; and is pushing to advance an ambitious territorial development reform. This DR's Urbanization and territorial …
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Resilient land use planning integrates multiple perspectives, including exposure to natural hazards and associated vulnerabilities and risks, to ensure that development can cope with disruptions and recover swiftly from disaster events. Resilient land use planning aims to accommodate multiple...
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This report uses administrative tax data on firm-to-firm trade in Honduras to evaluate the degree of integration between firms receiving export-oriented tax exemptions and the local economy. We present five stylized facts regarding firms' trade networks in Honduras and show that, across several...
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The objective of this report is to inform the government's policies and strategies on urbanization as a driver of … economic development, job creation, and poverty reduction. Note two examines internal migration in Rwanda, which is a recent … three years between 2011 and 2014. Rural-to-urban migration has increased slightly as a share of internal migration, and …
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where are they heading based on current trends? This report analyses the state of Tanzania's urbanization process and the …
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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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cities, equivalent to adding 700,000 new urban residents every year. At current rates of urbanization, the region's urban …
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The objective of this report is to inform the government's policies and strategies on urbanization as a driver of … economic development, job creation, and poverty reduction. Note 1 examines Rwanda's urbanization process since 2002 by …'s urbanization process. In the first part, it lays out the overall trends in Rwanda's levels of urbanization and the primary trends …
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The Mozambique urbanization review aimed at contributing to the country's policy and institutional reform agenda on how … to harness the full potential of urbanization to promote economic growth and poverty reduction. The study carried out in …-depth analyses of the urbanization process, uncovering how urbanization has been influenced by national, regional, and international …
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Urbanization in Myanmar is still in an early phase with slightly less than one-third of the population living in cities … social divisions, and potentially contribute to crime and violence. The report, Myanmar's Urbanization: Creating … Opportunities for All aims to understand urbanization in Myanmar drawing on the growing literature on the topic in Myanmar …
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