Private Sector Development (World bank blog):
What's next fo the competitive cities initiative: `To travel far, let's travel together'
18 December 2015
The World Bank Group launched the Competitive Cities report [1] on December 10 - ''Competitive Cities for Jobs and Growth: What, Who and How,'' which represents almost two years of research and analysis to put together a reliable, comprehensive and unified body of work. It is aimed primarily to help cities formulate and implement economic development strategies, and it is intended to be used by city leaders themselves. ... ''This [report] seems like a natural outflow from the World Development Report 2009 [7] ... [That report in] 2009 was a huge step [8] in getting us towards thinking more about cities [9]. What is really nice about this report is that it is the next step on this journey [of trying to understand] how we should be structuring decision-making to try to drive forward this [economic development of cities] agenda.'' - Professor Henry Overman, London School of Economics; Director, What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth.
This article was published online by Private Sector Development (World bank blog) on December 18, 2015
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Related links
Henry Overman webpage
Urban Programme webpage
Trade Programme webpage