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Dar es Salaam as a 'harbour of peace' in East Africa : tracing the role of creolized urban ethnicity in nation-state formation
Bryceson, Deborah Fahy - 2010
; nationalism ; urbanization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008660819
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Cityness and African urban development
Pieterse, Edgar A. - 2010
This paper explores one possible argument for how to respond to the epistemic troubles in the production of knowledge about urban Africa. The problem I have in mind is the preponderance of policy-oriented research on the development challenges and absences of African cities, as opposed to a more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008661214
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Urban myths and the mis-use of data that underpin them
Satterthwaite, David - 2010
-income nations and how this limits the accuracy of international comparisons - for instance of levels of urbanization and of the size … misconceptions in regard to growth rates for city populations and for nations' levels of urbanization. It ends with some comments on … how data limitations distort urban policies. -- urbanization ; city populations ; censuses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008661301
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Globalization and exclusionary urban growth in Asian countries
Kundu, Amitabh; Kundu, Debolina - 2010
urbanization, and speculates on its impact on the quality of life and poverty in the context of Asian countries. After experiencing … deceleration. This questions the postulate of the epicentre of urbanization shifting to Asia. It also lends credence to the thesis … dent on macro-level aggregates. -- Water supply ; perceptions ; environmental health ; transition ; urbanization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008661736
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Moderating urbanization and managing growth : how can Colombo prevent the emerging chaos?
Dayaratne, Ranjith - 2010
This paper examines urbanization trends, the growth of Colombo and its present state of development. It looks at the … urbanization and development. -- Colombo ; urban development ; managing urbanization ; planning ; housing; squatter settlements …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008661792
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Passage, profit, protection and the challenge of participation
Landau, Loren B. - 2010
chauvinism and restrictive migration or anti-urbanization policies and practices. Drawing primarily on examples from Johannesburg … ; urbanization ; African cities ; social cohesion ; integration ; cosmopolitanism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008661896
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Latin American urban development into the 21st century : towards a renewed perspective on the city
Rodgers, Dennis; Beall, Jo; Kanbur, Ravi - 2011
development agendas, and concludes with a call for a renewed vision of Latin American urban life. -- Latin America ; urbanization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008811158
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Addis deals: reckoning with the informal governance of urban structural transformation
Robi, Selam - 2024
African cities are increasingly seen as key to unlocking national structural transformation and inclusive growth, as they tend to host the majority of the non-productive and informal labour force; attract the lion's share of domestic investment in non-productive sectors; and host different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014563046
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The political economy of structural transformation in African cities : insights from the Deals and Development framework
Sen, Kunal - 2024
An important stylized fact about African economic development is the phenomenon of urbanization without structural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015053974
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The afterlife of industrial work : urban-to-rural labour transitions from the factory to the informal economy
Mezzadri, Alessandra; Banerjee, Kaustav - 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has escalated processes of labour transition from industrial work to the informal economy, which have always characterized the life of the working poor. Exploring urban-to-rural labour transitions through a feminist political economy lens and adopting a life-cycle approach...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012650767