Infrastructure & Urbanisation
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Congestion pricing to solve traffic jams in Bangalore: Not so fast!
Congestion pricing is not as effective in reducing travel times as one might presume
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Building effective and functioning cities
Ed Gleaser on why urbanisation is the best way to foster economic growth, and how cities should be planned.
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Law of the land: Ethnic patronage in Kenya’s slums
Slum tenants face higher rents and lower investments when their landlord and chief share ethnicity, while gaining when their chief is a co-ethnic
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Ghana’s infrastructure: The mystery of misspending
The primary cause of incomplete infrastructure projects in Ghana is poor financial planning. This video documents the evolution of this study.
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The equitable benefits of Colombia’s bus rapid transit system
Investments in bus rapid transit systems can lead to large returns that benefit the high-skilled more than we might expect
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Building effective and functioning cities
Ed Gleaser on why urbanisation is the best way to foster economic growth, and how cities should be planned.
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The economics of clearing land mines
How does the clearance of land mines impact economic activity in Mozambique? Elias Papaioannou sheds some insight using geographical and micro-level...
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An agenda for urban access
Jitendra Bajpai of Columbia University outlines the three major accessibility problems facing cities in developing countries and policy ideas for how...
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Changing population distribution: The roles of nature and history
The dynamic interplay of geography, technology, economic growth, and history has changed the way population is distributed