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9th Urbanization and Development Conference

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BREAD-IGC Virtual PhD course on urban economics

Blog series

Climate priorities in developing countries

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Highlights

Cities Spatial Model

Cities Spatial Model: A Quantitative Spatial Equilibrium Model to guide urban planning, policy, and infrastructure investment decisions

Hugh Cole, Victoria Delbridge, Maria del Mar Gómez, Nick Tsivanidis, Román David Zárate
Policy toolkit
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IGC Cities Spatial Model

Hugh Cole, Román David Zárate, Nick Tsivanidis
Film
View of the city of Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. Photo by Edwin Remsberg/VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images.

Economics meets urban planning: Developing effective land use plans in fast-growing cities

Paul Collier, Edward Glaeser, Tony Venables, Victoria Delbridge, Juliana Oliveira-Cunha
Policy brief
Luanda, Angola. Photo by Eric Lafforgue via Getty Images.

Delivering urban development: PPPs and other procurement options for urban infrastructure and services

Paul Collier, Edward Glaeser, Tony Venables, Priya Manwaring, Shahrukh Wani
Policy paper
Nairobi view

IGC Evidence Papers - Cities

Gharad Bryan, Edward Glaeser, Nick Tsivanidis
Synthesis paper
One of the busy main streets (Burton St) of Kampala, the capital of Uganda.

Building new informal bus routes to advance transportation equity: An experiment in Uganda

Tamara Kerzhner
Blog
Residents recycle junk in a waste disposal dump in Accra, Ghana

Strengthening urban waste management by empowering waste pickers in Ghana

Martin Oteng-Ababio, Ebenezer Amankwaa
Blog
View of downtown Nairobi

The economics of urban planning: Why land and labour markets matter

Juliana Oliveira-Cunha
Blog
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Understanding travel demand for women and men in urban Ethiopia

Anastasiia Arbuzova, Tigabu Getahun, Ammar A Malik, Mahesh Karra
Blog
Commuters in Jakarta

Designing a public transit network: Evidence from Jakarta, Indonesia

Arya Gaduh, Tilman Graff, Rema Hanna, Gabriel Kreindler, Benjamin Olken
Blog

Meet our researchers

The IGC works with hundreds of top academics in leading universities around the world. These academics are experts in their fields and are able to provide insights on our research engagements.

Nada Eissa

Associate Professor, Georgetown University
Sandra Sequeira

Sandra Sequeira

Associate Professor of Development Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Nava Ashraf

Professor of Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Mar Reguant

Professor of Economics, Northwestern University
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