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Financing Transit-Oriented Development with Land Values: Adapting Land Value Capture in Developing Countries
Cities in developing countries are experiencing unprecedented urban growth. Unfortunately, this is often accompanied by the negative impacts of sprawl as a result of rapid motorization such as…
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A model for Transit Oriented Development: Curitiba, Brazil
In the mid-1960s, to keep pace with Curitiba’s surge in population, traffic congestion, and uncontrolled urban sprawl, the City shifted its urban planning strategy from a radial growth pattern to a…
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Projects and Programs Manual to Encourage Cycling in Communities
Cycling is already an important part of daily life many of Brazil’s urban residents. To grow the country’s cycling culture as well as provide better conditions for users, EMBARQ Brazil developed this…
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Transit-Oriented Development Toolkit
Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) is an integrated approach to urban planning that aligns transport, land use, and urban design to create compact, connected, and livable cities. By concentrating…
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Unlocking Development through the Power of Co-financing
On February 11, the World Bank Group, together with the Moroccan Ministry of Economy and Finance and AFD Group, will convene a high-level forum — The Power of Co-Financing — to strengthen…
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What will it cost to build the cities of the future?
Banking on Cities means betting on the engines of tomorrow’s growth, jobs, and opportunity. For low- and middle-income countries, the right urban investents can unlock enormous economic potential—if…
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Less driving, more living, and the promise of the 15-minute city
Smart urban planning is essential for developing country cities grappling with rapid growth and increasing congestion. At the same time, these cities often face related challenges—inequality, traffic…
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Parking: If you build it, will they come?
In many cities in developing countries, parking is becoming a significant issue as cities urbanize and car ownership rises. Planners often respond by increasing parking spaces, but is that the best…
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Investing in rail can help put African cities on a more sustainable track
With the right policies and resources, railways have the potential to become the anchor for sustainable urban development across many parts of Africa. Several major cities in the region are…
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Routes to Resilience: The Power of Transport and Jobs in Morocco and Yemen
Across the region, World Bank transport projects show that infrastructure is not just about building roads, it’s about building opportunity. The work in Morocco and Yemen illustrates how targeted…
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The Nature-Based Solutions Opportunity Scan
Nature-based solutions (NBS) offer cost-effective alternatives to gray infrastructure, while building climate resilience and bringing important socioeconomic benefits to communities and the…
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Global Facility to Decarbonize Transport Annual Report (2025)
Development depends on transport that works. Transport systems connect people to opportunity, support businesses and trade, and enable economies to grow. When transport is reliable, efficient, and…
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Electric Vehicle and Labor Market Transformation
Motorcycle-taxis are among the fastest-growing forms of informal transport in developing economies, providing essential mobility and absorbing millions of workers into flexible but precarious…
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Guide for Road Safety Assessments for Urban Railway Crossings and Stations
This guide explains that safety is not just about the trains themselves, but also about how people get to and from stations . Problems often come from poor sidewalks, missing sign age, bad lighting,…
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Mobility and Development Periodical, Winter 2025
This periodical brings together fourteen insightful articles that showcase the transformative role of transport in driving development, connectivity, and innovation across diverse contexts. The…
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Transit-Oriented Development Implementation Resources and Tools : Second Edition
This toolkit provides a compendium of resources for Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) stakeholders to navigate each phase of the TOD process: Assessing, Enabling, Planning and Design, Financing, and…
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From Risk to Resilience: Helping People and Firms Adapt in South Asia
What can governments in South Asia with limited fiscal resources do to boost the resilience of theireconomies and societies?
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Tackling corruption: A collective global responsibility
Addressing corruption is critical for fostering a fair and transparent economic environment, which in turn creates jobs, attracts investment, and promotes sustainable development. Anticorruption…
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World Bank’s Governance & Institutions Umbrella Program
The Governance & Institutions Umbrella Program focuses on supporting client countries in improving public sector performance and strengthening institutional reform, leveraging the power of…
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Beyond privatization: A fresh approach and new tools for state-owned enterprise reform
Multiple instruments can be deployed to improve market performance and outcomes in sectors with SOE presence, and privatization is only one of them. To support governments in navigating the…
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Businesses Of The State (BOS) and Private Sector Development Toolkit
In light of the importance of state as a market player in the global economy, this toolkit provides guidance on how to conduct a systematic diagnostic of the state footprint with the objective to…
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Victims of Corruption: Back for Payback
Corruption harms communities and impacts the global economy, and discourages business opportunities, hinders foreign aid and investment, and exacerbates inequality. This publication aims at…
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Impacts of climate change – foreseeable or unforeseeable? Drafting force majeure clauses in the era of climate uncertainty
The article outlines the potential role of the force majeure clause in the context of climate change, and summarizes key considerations and effective drafting techniques. It recommends instead…
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Unlocking Local Finance For Sustainable Infrastructure
This study is part of a broader program supported by the Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF) to address the challenges in mobilizing LFC commercial lending into infrastructure and…
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Nature-Based Solutions for Ports: An Overview of NBS Implementation in Practice - Opportunities and Challenges
This report provides an overview of the potential role that nature-based solutions (NBS) can play in ports. It aims to illustrate how NBS can be effectively integrated into port planning, design, and…