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  1. Library Resource
    May, 2012
    Global

    The World Bank committed $30.6 billion
    in transport-related projects during the past decade, making
    it one of the largest sectors. The evaluation looks into the
    Bank's experience in the sector, and assesses the
    institution's interventions, the impact of rapid
    transport sector expansion, and its readiness to meet the
    challenges ahead.

  2. Library Resource

    Following 26 years of core housing consolidation and the struggle to achieve a sense of dignity

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    January, 2013
    South Africa

    This working paper by Tikvah Breimer previously of the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS) and Mark Napier previously of Urban LandMark, analyses the provision of core housing in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, specifically taking into account the residents' response to the state's delivery of core housing. It aims to explore to what extent the South African government's approach to providing large-scale housing addresses the relevant demands in the context of rapid urbanisation.

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2012
    Cambodia

    This report is a review of city’s development paradigm, including an examination of urban services and infrastructure, the regulatory framework, mobility networks, major stakeholders, and key issues in the city's development. The authors argue that Phnom Penh stands at a crossroads. Ahead is the continuation of a “planned” development of the city first developed by the French and then adopted by the Sihanouk regime. To either side is the new “unplanned” approach, a path that already seems to be the favored choice.

  4. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2012

    Food is fundamental to human wellbeing and development. Increased food production remains a cornerstone strategy in the effort to alleviate global food insecurity. But despite the fact that global food production over the past half century has kept ahead of demand, today around one billion people do not have enough to eat, and a further billion lack adequate nutrition.

  5. Library Resource
    June, 2012

    Mega urban regions are not a passing
    phenomenon. They are likely to persist and to enlarge their
    economic footprints because they benefit from the advantages
    of market scale, agglomeration economies, location, and the
    increasing concentration of talented workers. Metropolitan
    regions which are polycentric, relatively well managed, and
    have invested heavily in transport infrastructure are able
    to contain some of the problems attendant upon a

  6. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2012
    Cambodia

    Through LMAP, and subsequent LASSP, Cambodia has made impressive progress in building a functioning cadastral system over the last ten years. This process has proved complex and challenging, but since commencing, the land registration teams have successfully issued over 1.7 million land titles, a strong legal framework has been developed for the functioning of the land administration bodies and mechanism, institutions have been built and strengthened, and a dispute resolution process has been established for dealing with disputes over unregistered land.

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