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Value in the air: How São Paulo finances urban infrastructure

Gharad Bryan, Flavia Leite, Camila Maleronka, Juliana Oliveira-Cunha, Caterina Soto-Vieira, Nick Tsivanidis

Blog

Urban landscape of the city of Sao Paulo.
A mayor’s plan for economic growth? Building an enabling city

Victoria Delbridge, Tim Dobermann, Muskan Jain, Juliana Oliveira-Cunha

Blog

View of Kigali business district with offices, towers and residential homes. Photo credits: stellalevi / E+ via Getty Images.
Why cities are the engine of growth in developing countries

Victoria Delbridge, Oliver Harman, Juliana Oliveira-Cunha

Blog

Luanda, Angola. Photo by Eric Lafforgue via Getty Images.
Urbanisation, structural transformation and climate resilience: Assessing the economic drivers of mangrove depletion in Mozambique

Julien Wolfersberger 30 Sep 2026

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Creating cleaner cities: Sustainable strategies for urban waste management

Erin Spence, Oliver Harman

Blog

NIGERIA-ENVIRONMENT-POLLUTION Workers load plastic waste in to bags at Kara, Ibafo, Ogun State in southwest Nigeria, on April 1, 2021. - The sprawling neighbouring Lagos megacity of 20 million people produces between 13,000 and 15,000 tons of waste per day, including 2,250 0f plastics,according to the Lagos-based recycling sart-up Wecyclers. (Photo by PIUS UTOMI EKPEI / AFP) (Photo by PIUS UTOMI EKPEI/AFP via Getty Images)
Video recording; BREAD-IGC virtual PhD course on urban economics: Lecture 2

Melanie Morten, Gharad Bryan

Video

Migation, BREAD, lecture 2
Traffic in big cities: Global evidence and lessons for Pakistan

Hina Shaikh

Blog

Composite of two images - KARACHI, PAKISTAN -In Karachi, where the traffic is a complete chaos, rickshaws, also called 'Tuk tuk', are among the preferred means of transport for tourists as well as locals (Photo by Adsiz Gunebakan/Anadolu via Getty Images). Second image sourced via Adobe Express (Pakistan green Railway)
Sewer expansion and urbanisation in developing countries: Evidence from Brazil

Sean McCulloch, Matt Schaelling, Matthew Turner, Toru Kitagawa

Blog

An open sewer in a city in Brazil flanked by walls, plants and birdlife.
9th Urbanization and Development Conference

11–12 June 2025 Cape Town Civic Centre

Past Event

An image of construction workers working together on a large building site in Rwanda
Video recording; BREAD-IGC virtual PhD course on urban economics: Lecture 5

Matthew Turner, Kelsey Jack

Video

Virtual course BREAD Water and sanitation
Video recording; BREAD-IGC virtual PhD course on urban economics: Lecture 3

Vernon Henderson, Maisy Wong

Video

BREAD IGC Lecture 3
The role of inter-governmental transfers in financing Africa’s cities

Oliver Harman

Blog

How transport reforms have impacted urban connectivity in Kenya

Astrid Haas, Sebastian Kriticos, Nicolas Lippolis

Blog

Housing in Hawassa: How to accommodate migrant labour in industrialising cities

Astrid Haas, Sebastian Kriticos, Nicolas Lippolis

Blog

What a rapidly urbanising Africa can learn from China’s experience

Astrid Haas, Sebastian Kriticos, Nicolas Lippolis

Blog

Masai Market, Nairobi. Photo credit: Ninaras via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Urbanisation in fragile societies: Thinking about Kabul

Oliver Harman, Shoaib Rahim, Shahrukh Wani

Blog

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Transforming secondary cities in Uganda for job creation

Gregory Randolph, Miljan Sladoje, Sabina Dewan

Blog

Road in Mukono, Uganda. Photo credit: Antoine Plüss on Unsplash.
Urbanisation and structural transformation in Africa

Sebastian Kriticos

Blog

Bird's eye view photo of cityscape during nighttime. Photo credit: Unsplash.
Insights to inform urban planning in Rwanda

Anirudh Rajashekar, Marion Richard, Dimitri Stoelinga

Blog

View from the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre grounds. Photo credit: Lori Howe, CC BY 2.0.
A framework for affordable housing in Pakistan

Kamil Khan Mumtaz, Hina Shaikh

Blog

Busy Alley, Lahore Pakistan - Taken on 1 March 2020. Uploaded 29 December 2020. Photo by Adam Cohn, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.