Latin American Urban Development into the 21st Century Towards a Ren
By the dawn of the 21st century, more than half of the world's population was living in urban areas. This volume explores the implications of this unprecedented expansion in the world's most urbanized region, Latin America, exploring the new urban reality
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JO BEALL Director of Education and Society at UNU-WIDER, and member of the executive board of the British Council. Formerly Deputy Vice Chancellor at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, prior to which she was a professor of development studies at the London School of Economics, UK. RAVI KANBUR T.H. Lee Professor of World Affairs, International Professor of Applied Economics and Management, and Professor of Economics at Cornell University, USA. He has taught at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Essex, Warwick, Princeton and Columbia. He has served on the senior staff of the World Bank, including as Principal Adviser to the Chief Economist at the World Bank. He has also served as Director of the World Bank’s World Development Report.
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DENNIS RODGERS Professor of Urban Social and Political Research in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow. Previously a senior research fellow in the Brooks World Poverty Institute (BWPI) at the University of Manchester, UK, where he led their programme on Urban Poverty and Conflict.
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Studies in Development Economics and Policy
(UNU-WIDER) was established by the United Nations University as its first research and training centre and started work in Helsinki, Finland, in 1985. The purpose of the institute is to undertake applied research and policy analysis of structural changes affecting the developing and transitional economies; to provide a forum for the advocacy of policies leading to robust, equitable and environmentally sustainable growth; and to promote capacity strengthening and training in the field economic and social policy-making. Its work is carried out by staff researchers and visiting scholars in Helsinki, and through networks of collaborating scholars and institutions around the world. UNU World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, FIN-00160 Helsinki, Finland Titles include: Tony Addison and Alan Roe (editors) FISCAL POLICY FOR DEVELOPMENT Poverty, Reconstruction and Growth Tony Addison, Henrik Hansen and Finn Tarp (editors) DEBT RELIEF FOR POOR COUNTRIES Tony Addison and George Mavrotas (editors) DEVELOPMENT FINANCE IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY The Road Ahead Tony Addison and Tilman Brück (editors) MAKING PEACE WORK The Challenges of Social and Economical Reconstruction George G. Borjas and Jeff Crisp (editors) POVERTY, INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION AND ASYLUM Ricardo Ffrench-Davis and Stephany Griffith-Jones (editors) FROM CAPITAL SURGES TO DROUGHT Seeking Stability for Emerging Economies David Fielding (editor) MACROECONOMIC POLICY IN THE FRANC ZONE Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis and George Mavrotas (editors) FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENTS, INSTITUTIONS, GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION
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