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WB IADB Workshop, October 18, 2007, Washington, DC
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| | Metropolitan areas are very important for the economies of Latin America, generating a larger proportion of the national product than their share of the population. They are also nodes of complex social and environmental problems, which often have impacts beyond their borders. Extending over the jurisdictional territory of several sub-national governments, metropolitan areas pose a complex governance challenge. Most metropolitan areas in Latin America do not have adequate governance arrangements to ensure that they can provide a coordinated, efficient, and accountable platform for the expansion of competitive enterprises, deliver good services, and environmentally sustainable growth. The workshop will discuss new evidences on how metropolitan areas can tackle these issues based on results from recent research and dialogue undertaken under on-going partnership between the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and their counterparts in Buenos Aires and Sao Paulo. | | | | The Case of Buenos Aires The Buenos Aires study focuses on identifying long term strategic guidelines for the development of the agglomeration and proposes institutional arrangements to manage key areas of the urban development process. The guidelines cover issues impacting on the efficiency of the metropolitan area as a platform for economic development (transportation, energy, ports), to provide a good quality of life to the population and to expand on an environmentally sustainable matrix. The study contains more detailed proposals for managing urban land development in the periphery and for setting up a system of metropolitan parks. - Main Metropolitan Competitiveness and Governance Issues in Buenos Aires by Alfredo Garay, Deputy Ministry of Urban Development and Housing of the Buenos Aires Province
- Land Development in Metropolitan Buenos Aires by Eduardo Rodríguez Villaescusa, Catalan Consultant
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| The Case of Sao Paulo The Sao Paulo case focuses on key efforts towards strengthening economic growth, public services, and metropolitan governance. Through the perspectives of State and municipal governments, it will present key underlying factors of the economic transition, cross-jurisdiction service delivery (infrastructure, environmental management, social programs), and metropolitan governance. It will also show case some innovative policies, new institutional arrangements, and operational interventions to enhance competitiveness and investment climate, strengthen governance arrangements, and improve service delivery, particularly to urban poor. - Main Metropolitan Competitiveness and Governance Issues in the State of Sao Paulo by Alberto Goldman, Deputy Governor of the State of Sao Paulo
- Governance and Competitiveness in the Metropolitan Region of Baixada Santista by Joao Paulo Tavarez Papa, Mayor of Santos Municipality
- Economic Restructuring, Governance and Competitiveness in the ABC Region by Jeroen Klink, Dean of ABC Federal University, Former Director ABC
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