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Urban Development eBook Series

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  • Regenerating Urban Land

    A Practitioner's Guide to Leveraging Private Investment

    Series series Urban Development
    Regenerating Urban Land draws on the experience of eight case studies from around the world. The case studies outline various policy and financial instruments to attract private sector investment in urban regeneration of underutilized and unutilized areas and the requisite infrastructure improvements. In particular, each case study details the project cycle, from the scoping phase and ... Read more

    PHP1,689.06 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Regenerating Urban Land

    A Practitioner's Guide to Leveraging Private Investment

    Series series Urban Development
    Regenerating Urban Land draws on the experience of eight case studies from around the world. The case studies outline various policy and financial instruments to attract private sector investment in urban regeneration of underutilized and unutilized areas and the requisite infrastructure improvements. In particular, each case study details the project cycle, from the scoping phase and ... Read more

    PHP1,330.09

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  • The Public Wealth of Cities

    How to Unlock Hidden Assets to Boost Growth and Prosperity

    How to leverage existing resources to meet the current and future needs of citiesCrumbling streets and bridges. Poorly performing schools and inadequate social services. These are common complaints in cities, which too often struggle just to keep the lights on, much less make the long-term investments necessary for future generations.It doesn't have to be this way. This book by two internationally ... Read more

    PHP1,634.99

  • Regulating Infrastructure

    Monopoly, Contracts, and Discretion

    This wide-ranging study of urban infrastructure " offers a series of fascinating arguments" in favor of market-oriented approaches to regulation ( Times Higher Education Supplement).In the 1980s and '90s, many countries turned to the private sector to provide infrastructure and utilities—such as gas, telephones, and highways—with the idea that market-based incentives would control costs and ... Read more

    PHP822.49 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Job Creation In Latin America And The Caribbean: Recent Trends And Policy Challenges

    This book analyzes recent labor market trends in Latin American countries and the factors that underlie the failure to create more and more productive and rewarding jobs, a failure with substantial political and social costs. The authors analyze how growth and job creation in the region's economies compare with other emerging countries, the impact of job creation and destruction on productivity ... Read more

    PHP1,330.09

  • Community Land Trust Applications in Urban Neighborhoods

    Series series Common Ground Monographs
    When the first community land trusts (CLTs) began appearing in the United States during the 1970s, all were located in rural areas. By the 1980s and 1990s, this innovative form of tenure was spreading into cities, suburbs, and towns. Homeownership remained a priority for urban CLTs, but other applications got added to the mix: revitalizing distressed neighborhoods; preventing displacement in ... Read more

    PHP307.99

  • The Public Wealth of Nations

    How Management of Public Assets Can Boost or Bust Economic Growth

    We have spent the last three decades engaged in a pointless and irrelevant debate about the relative merits of privatization or nationalization. We have been arguing about the wrong thing while sitting on a goldmine of assets.Don’t worry about who owns those assets, worry about whether they are managed effectively.Why does this matter? Because despite the Thatcher/ Reagan economic revolution, the ... Read more

    PHP1,937.09

  • Focusing Partnerships

    A Sourcebook for Municipal Capacity Building in Public-private Partnerships

    Series series Municipal Capacity Building Series
    Despite the increasing occurrence of policies aimed at mobilising the financial and human resources of the private sector, most urban local governments responsible for urban basic services in the South do not have the capacity to initiate and sustain partnerships. Nor do they understand how they can create partnerships that target the poor. This sourcebook provides practical information and ... Read more

    PHP5,235.24

  • Planning, Connecting, and Financing Cities — Now

    Priorities for City Leaders

    This report provides Mayors and other policymakers with a policy framework and diagnostic tools to anticipate and implement strategies that can avoid their cities from locking into irreversible physical and social structures. At the core of the policy framework are the three main dimensions of urban development. • Planning— where the focus is on making land transactions easier, and making land use ... Read more

    PHP886.59

  • International Approaches to Real Estate Development

    An international approach to the study and teaching of real estate is increasingly important in today’s global market. With chapters covering numerous countries and every continent, International Approaches to Real Estate Development introduces real estate development theory and practice to students and professionals in the comparative international context. The book provides readers with a global ... Read more

    PHP4,742.45

  • The State of Labour

    The Global Financial Crisis and its Impact

    Edited by Sharit K. Bhowmik ...
    This book analyzes the adverse effects of globalization and liberalization — acutely manifest in the increased financialization of capital and the concomitant global financial crisis of 2008–09 — on the labour force, especially in the developing countries. Drawing upon case studies from several countries including India, Columbia, Malawi, Brazil and Thailand, it highlights the worsening plight of ... Read more

    PHP3,264.10

  • Business in Africa

    by Dianna Games ...
    High-growth, high-return Africa is the most sought after frontier destination for global investment today. But with 54 countries on the continent, even rigorous business plans can run aground on the unique and complex circumstances found within them. Business in Africa: corporate insights takes the reader to the coal face of doing business on the continent, drawing on the experience and insight of ... Read more

    PHP606.19