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Christiaensen, Luc - 2017

migration from rural areas to two potential destinations, secondary town and big city. The authors first derive labor income …, migration cost and poverty line conditions under which a poverty gradient from rural to town to city will exist as an …

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Good Urban Governance through ICT : Issues, Analysis, and Strategies

Relhan, Gaurav - 2012

Africa is currently experiencing the world's fastest urbanization rate at 3.5 percent annually-placing increasing …

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Transforming the Urban Space through Transit-Oriented Development : The 3V Approach

Salat, Serge - 2017

Imagine a city that is more competitive, with higher-quality neighborhoods, lower infrastructure costs, and lower C02 emissions per unit of activity. This city has lower combined transportation and housing costs for its residents than other cities at similar levels of economic activity. Its...

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Big Data and Thriving Cities : Innovations in Analytics to Build Sustainable, Resilient, Equitable and Livable Urban Spaces

Monroe, Trevor - 2017

The recent global diffusion of new technologies, combined with the use of big data analytics, can help policymakers promote the effective development of future cities that provide living and work environments in which citizens can thrive. In particular, innovative applications of geospatial and...

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Competitive Cities for Jobs and Growth : What, Who, and How

World Bank Group - 2015

A competitive city is a city that successfully facilitates its firms and industries to create jobs, raise productivity, and increase the incomes of citizens over time. Worldwide, improving the competitiveness of cities is a pathway to eliminating extreme poverty and to promoting shared...

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Why Secondary Towns Can Be Important for Poverty Reduction : A Migrant's Perspective

Ingelaere, Bert - 2018

This paper develops the concept of 'action space' as the range of possible destinations to which a migrant can realistically move at a given point in time and, intimately linked to this, the set of possible livelihoods at destination. It shows how this space expands and contracts over time...

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Migrants, Towns, Poverty and Jobs : Insights from Tanzania

Christiaensen, Luc - 2018

For a long time, the urbanization and development discourse has coincided with a focus on economic growth and big … cities. Yet, much of the world's new urbanization is taking place in smaller urban entities (towns), and the composition of … urbanization may well bear on the speed of poverty reduction. This paper reviews the latter question within the context of Tanzania …

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Decarbonizing Cities by Improving Public Transport and Managing Land Use and Traffic

Ardila-Gomez, Arturo - 2021

Urban transport is a significant contributor to climate-warming greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in cities, with most urban transport emissions coming from cars. More than seventy percent of global carbon dioxide emissions come from cities, making mitigation efforts at the local level an important...

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Urban Planning and Resilience Building in the Caribbean : 360 Degree Resilience Background Paper

Johnson, Cassidy - 2020

Urban Planning is often touted as one of the key actions for achieving sustainable and resilient development, and it is seen as a key element for reducing disaster risks in urban areas. It is especially important for managing urban growth and increasing resilience in already built-up urban...

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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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