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Urbanization in African development : issues and opportunities
Africa is rapidly becoming urbanized, and within the next 20 years most African nations will pass the point at which more than half of their population will be living in urban areas.
Garnett, Harry; Merrill, Sally +1 more · 1988
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Abstract
This paper contributes to the formation of an A.I.D. urban policy for Africa, an explicit statement of which has been lacking. It begins by summarizing urbanization trends in Sub-Saharan Africa and analyzing A.I.D."s overall African priorities with respect to their actual or potential urban content. It then outlines the role that urbanization plays in the overall development process. The more important urban development programs - secondary and market towns, municipal services, local resource mobilization, land management, small businesses, and urban upgrading - are discussed next. A final section presents country-specific options for A.I.D."s responses to urban development needs. A 5-page bibliography is included.
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