2023年4月3日 · The World Bank’s work in urban development aims to build sustainable cities and communities through an urbanization process that is green, inclusive, competitive, and resilient, contributing to the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) No.11, to the implementation of the New Urban Agenda, as well as to the World Bank’s goals to end extreme poverty and boost shared …

2021年5月19日 · This report – Demographic Trends and Urbanization – aims to frame that conversation by tracing the relationship between urbanization and relevant demographic indicators and how demography shapes a country’s desired development outcomes. The report explores how population growth, aging and migration affect the growth trajectories of cities ...

Urbanization in the country is dominated by the Bangkok urban area, which at 9.6 million people in 2010 almost joined the ranks of the megacities of the region. The Bangkok urban area grew from 1,900 square kilometers to 2,100 between 2000 and 2010, making it the fifth-largest urban area in East Asia in 2010, larger than megacities such as ...

2019年6月6日 · Myanmar’s Urbanization: Creating Opportunities for All provides an inclusive urbanization framework that includes three key dimensions; economic, social and spatial. The three dimensions of inclusion are highly interlinked, and any approach to understand the complexity of issues or develop solutions must consider all three.

2018年1月11日 · However, using another, simple definition of urban, the report’s researchers found that the level of urbanization had increased far more—from 15.8 percent to 26.5 percent between 2002 and 2015, an increase of 132 percent or almost 2 million people. In other words, says the report, large scale urbanization has already taken place in Rwanda.

The World Bank put forth its Urban and Local Government Strategy at a critical time. For the first time in history more than half the world’s people live in cities. Over 90 percent of urban growth is occurring in the developing world, adding an estimated 70 million new residents to urban areas ...

2014年4月17日 · The Chinese authorities are well aware of these issues and have announced plans for a new model of urbanization, "people-oriented" urbanization. The World Bank and the Development Research Center of China's State Council (the country's cabinet) have just issued a joint report on how such a new model - more efficient, inclusive and ...

COUNTRY FACT SHEET: SRI LANKA Although they have made progress, South Asian countries have struggled to make the most of the opportunity urbanization provides them to transform their economies to join the ranks of richer nations in both prosperity and livability, according to a new World Bank report – Leveraging Urbanization in South Asia: Managing Spatial Transformation …

2017年12月20日 · No country has achieved high levels of economic growth without urbanization. presenting an enormous opportunity for Cambodia given its early stage of urbanization with 21% of people living in cities. By 2050, it is expected that 36% of its residents will live in urban areas.

Unlike other South Asia countries, therefore, Bhutan does not suffer a problem of hidden urbanization. An analysis of nighttime lights data in South Asia shows the fastest rates of expansion in urban area were in Afghanistan and Bhutan, which recorded annual growth rates higher than 13 percent and which showed rates of expansion faster relative ...