[BOOK][B] Housing policy reforms in post socialist Europe: Lost in transition

S Tsenkova - 2009 - Springer
In the context of multiple 'transitions' to markets, democracy and decentralised governance
across the region, this chapter evaluates progress in housing reforms. The emphasis is on …

[PDF][PDF] The spatial distribution of population in 48 world cities: Implications for economies in transition

A Bertaud, S Malpezzi - Center for urban land economics research …, 2003 - lawrence.edu
This paper has been supported by the World Bank. Malpezzi's work on this paper has also
been supported by the UW's World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE) Initiative, and …

East European cities—patterns of growth and decline, 1960–2005

V Mykhnenko, I Turok - International Planning Studies, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
The paper examines the long-term population trajectories of East European cities and
analyses how their fortunes have changed, both in relation to their past growth profiles and …

Housing policy in develo** countries: Conjectures and refutations

RM Buckley, J Kalarickal - The World Bank Research Observer, 2005 - academic.oup.com
This article discusses housing policy in develo** economies. It examines recent research
findings in light of earlier arguments as to the benefits of more market-oriented approaches …

[BOOK][B] Thirty years of World Bank shelter lending: What have we learned?

RM Buckley, J Kalarickal - 2006 - books.google.com
" As England's Industrial Revolution started the process of urbanization that has since
characterized development throughout the world, a poet worried about the"" dark satanic …

The institutions of federalism: Toward an analytical framework

DE Wildasin - National Tax Journal, 2004 - journals.uchicago.edu
Mature federations have relatively transparent delineations of authority among levels of
government; subnational governments enjoy considerable autonomy in their expenditure …

Beyond transitions: Understanding urban change in post-socialist cities

S Tsenkova - The urban mosaic of post-socialist Europe: Space …, 2006 - Springer
In the last fifteen years, transition economies in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the
Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) have experienced highly dramatic change in …

[HTML][HTML] Shelter strategies for the urban poor: idiosyncratic and successful, but hardly mysterious

RM Buckley, J Kalarickal - 2004 - books.google.com
In 1986, the World Bank prepared a strategy for low-income housing in develo**
countries. This work grew out of the Bank's efforts to support the urban poor through an …

Knowledge that matters: Identifying regional knowledge assets of the Tampere region

A Lönnqvist, J Käpylä, H Salonius… - European Planning …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
The existing literature considers knowledge as one of the key drivers of regional
development. The idiosyncratic nature of regional knowledge is also acknowledged: each …

Position paper: benchmarking the performance of global and emerging knowledge cities

T Yigitcanlar - Expert Systems with Applications, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract Knowledge-based development has become a new urban policy approach for the
competitive cities of the global knowledge economy era. For those cities seeking a …