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Community Slum Sanitation in India : A Practitioner's Guide

World Bank Group - 2016

Sanitation Plans (CSPs, by March 2014). The NUSP recommended development of special strategies for slums and poor settlements as … an integral part of the CSPs. But the significant presence of slums in Indian cities (estimated between 9 and 14 million …

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Moving Up the Ladder : Poverty Reduction and Social Mobility in Nepal

World Bank Group - 2016

Nepal is emerging from a series of crippling shocks. Barely recovered from the devastation and loss wreaked by the earthquakes in April 2015, the country experienced a near total economic seizure between September 2015 and January 2016 as cross-border trade with India came to a halt. The...

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Mauritius : Earnings Mobility and Inequality of Opportunity in the Labor Market

World Bank Group - 2019

This report sheds light on the extent to which earnings mobility and inequality of opportunity in access to the labor market have contributed to the increase in earnings inequality in Mauritius. Among the most important concerns about rising inequality is a situation where people become trapped...

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The Middle Class in the Philippines : An Exploration of the Conditions for Upward Mobility

World Bank Group - 2020

A decade of rapid economic growth has supported upward mobility and the expansion of the middle class in the Philippines. While the Philippines' record of economic growth has been sound, many East Asian countries have performed better, resulting in higher levels of economic mobility and more...

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Transforming Tanzania's Cities : Harnessing Urbanization for Competitiveness, Resilience, and Livability

World Bank Group - 2021

where are they heading based on current trends? This report analyses the state of Tanzania's urbanization process and the …

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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

cities, equivalent to adding 700,000 new urban residents every year. At current rates of urbanization, the region's urban …

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Cities of Refuge in the Middle East : Bringing an Urban Lens to the Forced Displacement Challenge

World Bank Group - 2017

spectrum; what we can learn from existing urbanization and other relevant experiences to inform humanitarian and development …

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Reshaping Urbanization in Rwanda : Urbanization and the Evolution of Rwanda's Urban Landscape

World Bank Group - 2017

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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Reshaping Urbanization in Rwanda : Internal Migration in Rwanda

World Bank Group - 2017

The objective of this report is to inform the government's policies and strategies on urbanization as a driver of …

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