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Fridays Academy: Urbanization and Growth
From Raj Nallari and Indira Iyer's lecture notes. Urban SlumsAs quality urban housing is costly, the increasing numbers of urban poor start living in slums where water and sanitation facilities are...
View ArticleThe Financial Crisis and its Impact on Developing Countries
A new working paper by Stephany Griffith-Jones and José Antonio Ocampo, published by UNDP's International Poverty Centre, looks at the impact that the financial crisis is having on developing...
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Fridays Academy: Urbanization and Growth
Megacities and Urban AgglomerationDramatic decreases in costs of transport, communication and information technology should have reduced spatial disparities in economic activities and moved us to a...
View ArticleMap of Development Activities Worldwide
A while ago we wrote about the World Bank's Geo, a very useful Google map to browse WB's projects, news, statistics and public information centers by country.The online directory AiDA (Accessible...
View ArticleBlogs from the Earth Institute
Columbia University’s Earth Institute has created a site grouping four different blogs from its researchers and staff: State of the Planet, Climate and Energy, Water, and Millennium Villages.Its...
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Fridays Academy: Urbanization and Growth
Urban Land Management and HousingIt is not easy to control migration into a city. Therefore, cities become overcrowded with growing competition for space, mobility and resources. In the past 30 years...
View ArticleMoving Out of Poverty: Success from the Bottom Up (video presentation)
A while ago we mentioned the publication of the World Bank’s newest study on poverty: “Moving Out of Poverty: Success from the Bottom Up”.A video of a recent presentation of this publication at the...
View ArticleWorld Development Indicators 2009
The World Development Indicators is the World Bank's premier annual compilation of data about development. The 2009 WDI includes more than 800 indicators in over 90 tables organized in 6 sections:...
View ArticleFridays Academy: Urbanization and Growth
ConclusionUrbanization is increasing at a rapid pace. Between 2005 and 2030, the world’s urban population is expected to grow at an average annual rate of 1.78 per cent, almost twice the growth rate of...
View ArticleFridays Academy: Corruption, Growth and Poverty
(From Raj Nallari and Indira Iyer's lecture notes)The literature on corruption is large and growing. In this and upcoming Fridays Academy comments we will attempt to capture the essence of the...
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