Tagged ‘World Bank’
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Feeding Cities: Who’s Going To Do It?
If domestic policy and international trade policy keep pushing farmers to urban areas, who’s going to be left to feed our cities?
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Should the Feds Have a Unit to Support Public-Private Partnerships?
Would guidance from Washington help cities use public-private partnerships more effectively?
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UN-Habitat Report Asks Right Questions, But Short on Strategy
To open the World Urban Forum, UN-Habitat released its annual State of the World’s Cities report and introduced the City Prosperity Index, a new indicator to evaluate urban development. While the language represents a step forward, the report offers little in the way of pragmatic solutions.
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Indian Buses Aim for Fuel Efficiency
The bus transit agency for an Indian port city has maximized fuel efficiency over the last 10 years through an innovative training program for drivers.
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Filling the Finance Gap for Transport in China
China’s Ministry of Transport recently made an announcement that it will encourage more private investment in the transportation sector. This regulation appears to be a wise move, but more aggressive actions are required.
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Poverty Capitalism
Ananya Roy’s new book on microfinance, Poverty Capital, gives portrait to a brave new world of high interest, high performance, high risk lending—a sort of poverty bubble where results are measured in upward profit arrows rather than downward maternal mortality rates.
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A Recipe for Slums
Josh Leon takes a look at a report detailing the World Bank’s latest policy recommendations for dealing with urban population growth, housing and migration — and doesn’t like what he sees.
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The Modest Promise of Microfinance
Microfinance is being touted as a cure-all for poor communities. But while it might help increase small business diversity, Josh Leon thinks it won’t significantly alter the social fabric.
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Consensus, but Progress?
Josh Leon on whether the new standards of planning truly represent progress — or leave entire communities in the dust.
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Housing Finance: Let the ‘Good Times’ Roll Away
In the latest installment of his column, World Watch, Josh Leon wonders what will happen to developing nations that have liberalized real estate lending— much the way the U.S. did before the crash.
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