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Lessons for the Urban Century : Decentralized Infrastructure Finance in the World Bank

Annez, Patricia Clarke; Huet, Gw??naelle; Peterson, … - 2012

This book takes a look at the past to gain insights for the future. Nearly 30 years ago, when the world urban …, and before the wave of decentralization of the 1980s and 1990s, the World Bank developed an instrument with great … entities (municipalities, local utilities, or community groups) on behalf of the World Bank. This arrangement makes it feasible …

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Lessons for the urban century : decentralized infrastructure finance in the World Bank

Annez, Patricia Clarke - 2008

The world's urban population doubled between 1970 and 2008, growing from 1.5 billion to 3 billion people. Future world …

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A good-governance framework for urban management

Biswas, Rathin; Jana, Arnab; Arya, Kavi; Ramamritham, Krithi - In: Journal of urban management 8 (2019) 2, pp. 225-236

The shift towards capacity building and deteriorating governance, may lead to poor service delivery which is a prime challenge for governing agencies. Different countries follow their own sets of governance parameters and often assess the outcome of policies based on them. In order to compose a...

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Development charges : funding urban infrastructure in India and the Global South

Mathur, Shishir - 2024

The book uses the two key findings of the extant literature-the need to empower urban local governments and to employ a variety of local revenue sources-to advance the field of local government finance by studying an important fee-based revenue source - development charges. It begins by...

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