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Davos Sees Challenges, ‘Smart Cities’ Seize Opportunities: Finding...

​ As the world’s policymakers and business leaders converge in Davos, Switzerland for tomorrow’s opening of the World Economic Forum, there’s certainly no shortage of global threats for them to worry...

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Piggybanks for plunder: Corrupt cash flows to Global Cities, requiring...

Corrupt cash from secretive international sources – deliberately funneled through ‘shell companies’ to conceal the money’s illicit origins – is often used to buy ‘Towers of Secrecy’ in leading global...

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Olympic opportunity: Renew the ideal of the global Games – by restoring the...

Wasting billions of dollars, time and time again, to stage self-indulgent sports spectacles is no way for any society to build shared prosperity for the long term. But just try explaining that...

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Making cities competitive – What will it take?

Cities are the future. They are where people live and work. They are where growth happens and where innovation takes place. But they are also poles of poverty and, much too often, centers of...

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Competitive Cities: Bucaramanga, Colombia – An Andean Achiever

Modern business facilities, tourist attractions, and an expanding skyline: Bucaramanga, Colombia.  When the World Bank’s Competitive Cities team set out to analyze what some of the world’s most...

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A good diagnosis for the city economy?

One walks into a doctor’s office knowing what hurts but with little knowledge of what should be done to fix it. Identifying proper treatment requires sophisticated tests, participation of experts and,...

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Tangier, Morocco: Success on the Strait of Gibraltar

 Modern factories, seaport terminals, and technical schools, plus priceless cultural monuments: Tangier, Morocco In late 2014, the World Bank’s Competitive Cities team visited the Moroccan city of...

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What’s next for the Competitive Cities initiative: 'To travel far, let's...

“I wish that I had had this [report] when I started. . . . It has some great things that we found out over a long period time –  in many cases, through trial and error. And so, when I read it, I said,...

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Effective city competitiveness: 10 lessons learned in the Philippines

Maybe it's just easier to think that the keys to economic growth lie at the national level of governance – where monetary and fiscal policies, national law and development strategies are conceived and...

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Competitive Cities: Changsha, China – coordination, competition, construction...

Cites are the heartbeat of the global economy. More than half the world’s population now resides in metropolitan areas, making a disproportionate contribution to their respective countries’...

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Olympic-sized ambition: Halt the Games' economic excess by building a...

Build it well, build it wisely, and build it only once — How investing to create a permanent site for the Olympic Games, ideally in their historic home of Greece, could reduce waste, deliver economic...

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‘Smartest Places’ via smarter strategies: Sharpening competitiveness requires...

Defeatist demagoguery marred the 2016 election season, and it continues to resonate with many beleaguered voters in advanced Western economies, who dread the gloom-and-doom scenarios sketched by...

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How can Hong Kong stay smart and competitive? By driving change through a...

According to the World Economic Forum’s “Global Competitiveness Report 2016-2017,” Hong Kong dropped two notches to rank as No. 9 in its Global Competitiveness Index. The decline occurred mainly...

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Four ways start-ups can transform a city

From Berlin to Cairo, from Medellín to New York City, new start-ups are flourishing in the heart of the city instead of occupying suburban areas or remote technology parks. This is the new model of...

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Three ways creative community spaces are transforming cities

Start-ups are transforming cities. Entrepreneurs are inspiring creative communities and transforming the social and economic landscape of the neighborhoods where they cluster.  What drives...

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