The World Bank and urban development: From projects to policy As one of the world's most powerful supranational institutions, the World Bank has played an important role in international development discourse and practice since 1946. This is the first book-length history and analysis of the Bank...
U rban Development and the World Bank. Grould,W.T.S. Third World Planning Review . 1992Gould, W.T.S. (1992) Urban Development and the World Bank? Third World Planning Review, Vol. 14. No. 2, pp. III...
TIRANA, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) -- The World Bank has approved a financing of 71 million U.S. dollars for the project on integrated urban management and tourism in Albania, the bank's office in Albania said Wednesday. According to the World Bank, this project will help in creating new jobs he...
World Bank Country Director for Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone Pierre Laporte said residents of beneficiary municipalities would enjoy improved access to urban services, such as better roads, efficient services, and reduced flooding. "The additional financing will further focus on strengthening the capa...
This paper, entitled Urban Policy and Economic Development: An Agenda for the 1990s, (Cohen et al., 1991) proposed a policy framework and strategy to link World Bank assistance in the urban sector to the broader objectives of economic development. The policy framework was developed based on a...
BEIJING, May 25 (Xinhua) -- The World Bank has decided to provide funds for an urban environment project in China to promote biodiversity conservation and carbon neutrality, the country's finance ministry said Wednesday. About 26.91 million U.S. dollars will be granted by the Global Environment...
In 1991, the World Bank produced a policy paper to address emerging urban development issues that cities in the developing world face in the 1990s. This paper, entitled Urban Policy and Economic Development: An Agenda for the 1990s, (Cohen et al., 1991) proposed a policy framework and strate...
Learning by doing: World Bank lending for urban development, 1972–82 : IBRD (World Bank) , The World Bank, Washington, DC, 1983, 55 ppdoi:10.1016/0197-3975(84)90060-2Desmond McNeillElsevier LtdHabitat International
URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND RESILIENCE UNIT | JUNE 2013 THE WORLD BANK An Introduction to Tokyo's ETS System Tokyo’s emissions trading system (ETS) began operating in April 2010, and was the world’s first city-level cap- and-trade program targeting energy-related carbon dioxide (CO 2 ). Among...
KIGALI, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- Rwanda Tuesday launched of a project worth 95 million U.S. dollars to develop road and sanitation infrastructure in six designated secondary cities funded by the World Bank loan. The project dubbed Rwanda Urban Development Project (RUDP), will also see upgrading ...