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Tourism ecosystems: A way to think about challenges and solutions to tourism...
Ecosystem: A complex of living organisms, their physical environment, and all their interrelationships in a particular unit of space.Tourism: A social, cultural and economic phenomenon that entails the...
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So much for the myth that Washington empties out during the month of August. A standing-room-only throng flocked to a Monday-morning Brookings Institution seminar this week featuring a relative...
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To Meet the Jobs Challenge, Maximize the Impact of SMEs
The urgent challenge of generating jobs and incomes– as the world’s working-age population is poised to soar– will require making the most of all the job-creating energies of the private sector and...
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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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Does competition create or kill jobs?
Greater competition is crucial for creating better jobs, although there may be short term tradeoffs. Job creation on a massive scale is crucial for sustainably ending extreme poverty and building...
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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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Play the 'Competitive Cities' game: See whether you're a guru of urban...
To start the new year, I've designed a 10-question game to recap some of the major findings of our flagship report, “Competitive Cities for Jobs and Growth: What, Who and How.” The report, which was...
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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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Small states in search of big solutions: How the Caribbean Growth Forum is...
Grenada – Photo by Steve Utterwulghe Many Caribbean States have long been trapped in a vicious cycle of low growth, high debt and limited fiscal space. The impact of the 2008 financial crisis, as well...
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The essentials of a manufacturing ecosystem
Value addition through manufacturing has been a major focus of economic policymakers across the world, and at times with remarkable success, most famously in East Asia. Initial ‘Asian miracles’ in...
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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...
Seeking an antidote to the gloom-and-doom bombast of this election year? Try a dose of optimism about urban“hotspot hustle and cutting-edge cool” – with a book that champions smart public policy,...
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Spatial Growth Solutions, Multi-Stakeholder Engagement, and Fish: Innovative...
Nouadhibou’s artisanal fishing port (Photo by Steve Utterwulghe) In the Northern tip of Mauritania lies the Nouadhibou Free Zone. Created in 2013 with financial and technical support from the World...
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