, reflecting differing market, regulatory, and policy circumstances. This policy brief draws on World Bank experience and datasets … infrastructure system operators in different cities around the world, and how these link back to the climate challenges they may face … the World Bank Group …

This book takes a look at the past to gain insights for the future. Nearly 30 years ago, when the world urban …, and before the wave of decentralization of the 1980s and 1990s, the World Bank developed an instrument with great … entities (municipalities, local utilities, or community groups) on behalf of the World Bank. This arrangement makes it feasible …

The world's urban population doubled between 1970 and 2008, growing from 1.5 billion to 3 billion people. Future world …