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Physical planning problems and policies in Africa
(1964-07)
The current explosive growth of cities throughout the world is helping to break down existing social and economic institutions but these are seldom replaced by a new socio-economic structure the physical symposium if this ...
Urbanization and development in Africa: the role of the Economic Commission for Africa
(2022)
Urbanization is one of the most important shifts that the African continent will undergo this century. In the three decades since 1990, Africa has added nearly 400 million people to its cities, and over the next three ...
Economic and social aspects of urbanization in African
(1972-08)
The present document contains information on the Economic and social aspects of urbanization in African, of the Seminar on Statistics and Studies of Migration and Urbanization held at Moscow, USSR, from 11-22 September ...
Report on human settlements : African regional implementation review for the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD-12)
(2003)
Africa is the fastest urbanizing region in the world, with the population doubling almost every
20 years. The rural population is growing at a rate of 2.5 per cent per annum, while the urban
population is experiencing ...
Leveraging urbanization for Africa’s structural transformation: ECA’s contribution
(2017)
Africa’s structural transformation is the overarching policy priority for the continent’s inclusive and sustainable development. As clearly expressed in the African Union’s Agenda 2063, there is now consensus among African ...
The new face of poverty in Africa : urban poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa
(1999-07)
The paper tries to describe the overall condition of urban poverty in SSA. The poverty results are reported in terms of the popular poverty measures known as the FGT indices i.e. the head-count ratio (Po) which
measures ...