Policy and planning for the provision of water supply and sanitation services in developing countries. Reviews … participation in the planning process. Evaluates policies and projects in case studies from Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Central …

An understanding of the politics of the water sector during the first decade of South Africa's democracy requires an … tension between a rights-based approach to service provision and the politics of sustainability and conservation. The … interplay between these parallel dynamics is about the politics of the South African transition to democracy. But South Africa …

both contribute substantially, and often are very vulnerable, to the impacts of GEC. This applies strongly in Africa, one …

Africa, unique in a number of respects, is having deleterious and largely unchecked impacts on the natural environment; the …Africa is urbanizing late but fast. This brings many benefits but, as this report shows: thus far, urbanization in …

Urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is generally highlighted as a puzzle that deviates from the stylized facts in …-step system generalized methods of moments to investigate the effect of urbanization on the Poverty Headcount ratio and Poverty … Gap. The estimated urbanization elasticities of poverty indicate that at growth rates, a 1 percentage point increase in …

(english) This paper proposes to critically examine the United Nations projections on urbanisation. Both the estimates … more pronounced for developing countries and may exceed 30% in Africa, India and Oceania …