Cities are often heralded as the engines of economic growth, contributing a disproportionate share of a country's GDP relative to their population size. This trend has fueled a significant increase in...
The development objective of Can Tho Urban Development and Resilience Project for Viet Nam is to develop Can Tho sustainably, enhancing the city to be resilient to the impacts of climate change, promoting...
Cities flourish when all of their residents have the services, infrastructure, and support to succeed, and municipal managers are responsible for supporting these diverse stakeholders. As financial institutions...
The six Western Balkans (WeBa) countries, composed of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia, have undergone major economic transformations over the past 15 years...
How will the world’s developing cities become vibrant—capable of meeting the climate, social, and economic challenges of tomorrow? Vibrant cities offer firms and households high expectations for good returns...
مع تخبّط المدن أكثر فأكثر في أزمات معقدة ومتداخلة، من جائحة كوفيد- 19 إلى تغير المناخ والصراعات في عدة مناطق، تطرح بعض الأسئلة المهمة نفسها: كيف يمكن للمدن مواجهة التحديات الاقتصادية والاجتماعية والمناخية...
In both G20 and non-G20 countries alike, cities have a crucial role to play in the achievement of national development goals. Already, cities generate more than 80 percent of global GDP and, with a share...
The development objective of the Dynamic Cities Integrated Development Project for Vietnam is to increase access to improved urban infrastructure services and enhance integrated urban planning and management...
Ratings for the Sichuan Chongqing Cooperation : Guang’an Demonstration Area Infrastructure Development Project for China were as follows: outcome and Bank performance was satisfactory, and monitoring and...
The SmartCity.za Bulletins are a series of short newsletters which will both inform and be informed by the DBSA Smart Cities Programme and its community of practitioners. It combines thematic research...
This paper uses high-frequency nighttime time lights data to estimate the impacts of the Covid-19 crisis on economic activity during the first year of the pandemic for a global sample of 2,800 cities...
The World Bank has been providing technical support to Bucharest City Hall (BCH) for the past two years, under the Bucharest Urban Development Program. This report, Output 13 builds on this prior work...
African cities are growing at an extraordinary rate. Unfortunately, many cities are growing so fast that national, provincial, and city governments cannot manage how they develop or assure the provision...
This report explores the organizational structure of the city’s real estate and local economic development (LED) functions, highlights examples of good practices of high-performing global cities’ organization...
Tirana a crescut de patru ori în ultimii treizeci de ani, cu o mulțime de dezvoltare informală și ilegală care a alimentat construcția în plină expansiune a capitalei albaneze. Pe piața de dezvoltare din...
Sistemul de e-permising este un sistem electronic național de planificare și dezvoltare inițiat în orașul Tirana și activ acum în toată Albania. Sistemul folosește o platformă web pentru a organiza și...
The story of Romania's economy is winding and complex. With the fall of communism, Romania undertook a winding transition to a market economy, with much of the 1990s marked by economic decline and restructuring...