Similar Search Results

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Who trusts? : ethnicity, integration, and attitudes toward elected officials in urban Nigeria

LeBas, Adrienne - 2017

In the developing world, clientelism is common. In Africa, public office is often used to redistribute resources to ethnically defined constituencies, and this form of clientelistic exchange is a key determinant of vote choice. Does clientelistic exchange shape trust in elected officials as...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011656314

The role of participation in sustainable community development programmes in the extractives industries

McDonald, Catherine - 2017

A major challenge for almost all extractives activity is that benefits accrue predominantly at the national level while disruptions are invariably highly localized close to the resource. Recently, extractives companies have intensified efforts to correct this imbalance. The aim of this paper is...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011595746