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Publication - Policy Brief
Land rights: Unlocking land for urban development
This brief outlines the crucial role land rights play in urban development, and explores trade-offs that policymakers face in reforming current tenure systems. It identifies key lessons and best-practices from policy reforms across the developing world.
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Publication - Working Paper
Infrastructure investments and public transport use: Evidence from Lahore, Pakistan
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Publication - Working Paper
The welfare effect of road congestion pricing: Experimental evidence and equilibrium implications
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Publication - Working Paper
Informal taxation and cash transfers: Experimental evidence from Kenya
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Publication - Policy Brief
Options for financing and funding transportation infrastructure
There is a growing interest in building urban transportation infrastructure across the developing world. Many policymakers are currently drafting ambitious transportation plans that implement new systems and build infrastructure. A key hurdle to the implementation of major transportation projects is funding which often costs billions of dollars and requires...
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Publication - Project Report
Urban development and rural-urban linkages in six towns in Bihar
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Publication - Project Report
Remote sensing for measuring housing supply in Kigali
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Project
Remote sensing for measuring housing supply in Kigali
This project tests the ability of remote sensing to cost-effectively monitor and measure housing supply in data-poor cities, and demonstrates the usefulness and limitations of the resulting data for i) analyses of housing market and density trends, and ii) computerised mass land valuations. This project thus supports two core components of the IGC's Rwandan (and...
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Event
Can special economic zones drive growth in developing cities?
The Oxford Urbanists/IGC Cities that Work co-host the third part of the panel series for a discussion on the effectiveness of special economic zones in developing cities. Practitioners and researchers from across the Oxford community discuss how SEZs have historically driven economic growth in various geographic contexts, how they can do so in the future. With the end of...
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Publication - Policy paper
Accessing opportunities: Policy decisions for enhancing urban mobility