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Foreign Aid, Urbanization and Green Cities

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Rapid urbanization, and particularly the associated problems of urban poverty, unsustainable development and environmental degradation, pose an enormous challenge to many developing countries. In the last decade more foreign aid has been diverted to urbanization and green city development. This paper studies aid's implementation strategies and effectiveness by investigating 'what works in foreign aid on urbanization and green cities', 'what could work', and 'what is scalable and transferable in foreign aid on urbanization and green cities'.

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  • Jun Li, 2013. "Foreign Aid, Urbanization and Green Cities," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2013-051, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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