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World Bank, IMF Link Urbanisation with Development
2013-04-18 02:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Two of the world's largest multilateral institutions have released new data linking greater urbanisation with higher levels of human development, and are announcing that they will place greater priority on issues of urbanisation in coming decades. According the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF), urban areas in the developing world look set to pull in a staggering 96 percent of the additional 1.4 billion people expected in those countries by 2030. According to some metrics, that...
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