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- Urban Development Overview - World Bank Group
Urban Development As the world's largest multilateral financier of urban development, the World Bank works with national and local governments to build more livable, sustainable, and resilient cities and communities
- Banking on Cities: Investing in Resilient and Low-Carbon Urbanization
This report highlights the substantial investments required to build more resilient and low-carbon cities in low- and middle-income countries These investments are crucial to strengthen essential infrastructure, unlock new jobs, and ensure more sustainable urban development Resilient and low
- Shaping a Cooler Bangkok: Tackling Urban Heat for a More Livable City
Extreme urban heat is becoming an urgent challenge for Bangkok, threatening lives, livelihoods, and the city’s economic resilience The Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect exacerbates this crisis, turning built-up areas into heat traps that contribute to heat-related mortality, lost productivity, higher energy consumption, and other negative outcomes
- LAC Equity Lab: Income Inequality - Urban Rural Inequality
Inequality is higher in rural than in urban areas of LAC, but had been decreasing in both during the last 15 years, however, following the pandemic caused by COVID-19 inequality increased in some countries Inequality indicators are different ways of measuring aggregate differences in income
- WORLD BANK SUPPORT FOR AMARAVATI AS A GROWTH HUB IN ANDHRA PRADESH
World Bank support Under the Amaravati Integrated Urban Development Program, the World Bank will support the first phase of the city’s development The Program will help strengthen the institutions and build the capacity needed for an inclusive city that can serve as a growth hub for the state and create opportunities for its residents
- Handbook on Urban Heat Management in the Global South
The Handbook on Urban Heat Management in the Global South provides practical strategies, technical guidance, and real-world solutions to help cities manage extreme urban heat
- Regenerating Urban Land: A Practitioners Guide to Leveraging Private . . .
Urban regeneration takes time Therefore, cities that are serious about revitalizing declining areas need to stick to a long-term vision that can withstand political swings and bureaucratic reassignments
- Demographic Trends and Urbanization - World Bank Group
Demographic trends are diverse among regions, within regions and within countries: while many cities will continue to grow, albeit at declining rates, many other cities are looking at declining or aging populations In the near future, many more cities will face an increasing aging population, with important implications for the provision of urban infrastructure and service provision
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