Infrastructure & Urbanisation
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Jakarta’s maligned congestion-easing policy actually worked
When unpopular anti-congestion policies were abandoned in Indonesia's capital, we discovered flawed policy had been better than no policy
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Property rights and poverty reduction: Effects of land titling on Argentina’s urban poor
Reducing the cost of land titles and simplifying the systems can improve land security and livelihoods of the poor
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Five lessons for urban policy
Five key lessons for policymakers in developing countries who want to implement effective urban policies.
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Making cities work in the developing world
A public lecture about the importance of cities for development and the need for policy to tackle the downsides of density. An introduction to IGC...
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Floods and the location of economic activity
Economic activity is concentrated in low-lying urban areas despite greater risk of flooding, and tends to return to these areas rather than relocating
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The bubble dynamics of China’s housing boom
Unless the government curtains new construction in lower tier cities, it is hard to see how the housing boom will sustain.
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Urbanisation with and without industrialisation
Resource-exporting countries urbanise without acquiring the industrial sectors typically associated with development
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When models fall short: Evidence from Chinese road infrastructure investments
Quantitative models may prove to be weak substitutes for direct empirical evidence; for evidence-based policymaking, research technique matters
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Flooding and urban adaptation
Economic activity tends not to relocate away from the most vulnerable locations, but aid for reconstruction could be used to encourage this to happen