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Bookmark or Share- Urban Development Overview - World Bank GroupThe World Bank’s work in urban development aims to build sustainable cities and communities through an urbanization process that is green, inclusive, competitive, and resilient, contributing to the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) No.11, to the implementation of the New Urban Agenda, as well as to the World Bank’s goals to end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity.
- Urbanization in Africa: Trends, Promises, and Challenges - World Bank GroupThe World Bank and the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET) are jointly hosting a conference titled Urbanization in Africa: Trends, Promises and Challenges from June 1 to 2, 2015 in Accra, Ghana. The share of Africans living in urban areas is projected to grow from 36 percent in 2010 to 50 percent by 2030.
- Leveraging Urbanization in Sri Lanka - World Bank GroupSri Lanka’s “messy” urbanization is reflected in patterns of sprawl and ribbon development with evidence of rapid growth on the periphery of, in particular, the Colombo metropolitan region and along major transport arteries. This differs from most of the rest of South Asia where messy urbanization is also associated with large slum ...
- Demographic Trends and Urbanization - World Bank GroupThis report – Demographic Trends and Urbanization – aims to frame that conversation by tracing the relationship between urbanization and relevant demographic indicators and how demography shapes a country’s desired development outcomes. The report explores how population growth, aging and migration affect the growth trajectories of cities ...
- Fostering Competitive, Sustainable and Inclusive Cities in the PhilippinesIn the Philippines Urbanization Review: Fostering Competitive, Sustainable and Inclusive Cities, the World Bank and the Government of the Philippines analyze three challenges that need to be addressed if the country is to reap the benefits of urbanization: Density. The growing population is not matched by key infrastructure investments.
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