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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

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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

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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

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

Vernon Henderson, Maisy Wong

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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

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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

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Transforming secondary cities in Uganda for job creation

Gregory Randolph, Miljan Sladoje, Sabina Dewan

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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.

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