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– Africa’s Presidential Investors’ Advisory Councils
Recent writing on industrial policy stresses the need for coordination between the public and private sectors. This paper examines the performance of one such coordination mechanism, Presidential Investors’ Advisory Councils, in Ethiopia, Senegal, Tanzania, and Uganda. It finds that the councils...
– Towards a Renewed Perspective on the City
According to UN-Habitat, Latin America is the most urbanized region in the world. Over three quarters of its population resided in cities at the turn of the twenty-first century, a proportion that is estimated will rise to almost 85 per cent by 2030. By comparison, just over 36 and 37 per cent of...
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Urbanization and Development in Asia
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From the book:
Urbanization and Development in Asia
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– Can Colombo Prevent the Emerging Chaos?
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Urbanization and Development in Asia
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– Negotiating Closed Doors and Windows of Opportunity
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Urbanization and Development in Asia
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– The Case of the Housing Movements of São Paulo
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Latin American Urban Development into the 21st Century
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– Assessing the Consequences of Allocation and Regulation Policy in Santiago de Chile’s Ferias Libres
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Latin American Urban Development into the 21st Century
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– Understanding the Political Logic of Violence-Reducing Policy Innovation in Three Colombian Cities
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Latin American Urban Development into the 21st Century
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– Assessing the Impact on Housing Improvements and Health
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Latin American Urban Development into the 21st Century
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– Successful Policy Innovation in Three Colombian Cities
This paper evaluates transformative policy innovations with respect to security and taxation in the three main Colombian cities: Bogotá, Medellín, and Cali. In the first two, such policies were associated with huge success. Elsewhere we (Gutiérrez et al. 2009) have tagged these transformation...
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– Impact on Housing Improvements and Health
This study examines the programme Redes Solidarias, a public-private initiative that connected to natural pipelined gas 4,000 households in the Great Buenos Aires Area during 2005. The main features of the institutional framework are described and the main results of an impact estimation analysis...
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