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Metropolitan challenges and affordable housing

Original Blogs CliffHague.comBy Cliff Hague 24. January 2023 Leave a comment

This blog was first posted in February 2020. After the pomp of the opening ceremony, the 10th World Urban Forum got involved in two critical issues. How to plan and manage metropolitan areas? An event organised by ISOCARP focused on this urgent theme. A range of leading figures from organisations that included the World Bank,…

Rural reform is on the OECD agenda

ICN Blog-2015By Cliff Hague 17. January 2023 Leave a comment

This blog was first posted on 8 October 2014. A new OECD report, Regions and Cities: Where policies and people meet, makes the point that regional disparities in income are widening. It calls for a place-sensitive approach to policy making, in other words it recognises that policies need to be tuned to specific characteristics of places, rather…