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Aguilera, Ana I.

Social, Urban, Rural, and Resilience Global Practice
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Urban development, Municipal management, Urban resilience, Local economic development, City competitiveness, Urban and regional economics, Slum grading, Geospatial
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Last updated: January 31, 2023
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Ana I. Aguilera is an Urban Development Specialist at the World Bank Group. Her work focuses on improving city management with an emphasis on urban economics and spatial development. She has studied the relationship between urban morphology, productivity and access to basic services in cities. Her work also comprises survey management and design to measure living standards and socioeconomic indicators in countries such as Tanzania, South Africa, Sierra Leone, Lebanon, Jordan and the Kurdistan region. Ana has contributed to various World Bank’s Urbanization Reviews, including Ethiopia, Nigeria, Turkey and Central America. In 2014 she was awarded with the Youth Innovation Fund for her work using Big Data to understand mobility patterns in cities. Ana graduated as an Economist from Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Caracas, and holds a MSc. in Public Policy from The University of Chicago.

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    Central America Urbanization Review: Making Cities Work for Central America
    (Washington, DC: World Bank, 2017-03-15) Maria, Augustin; Acero, Jose Luis; Aguilera, Ana I.; Garcia Lozano, Marisa; Maria, Augustin; Acero, Jose Luis; Aguilera, Ana I.; Garcia Lozano, Marisa; Andersson, Mats; Parby, Jonas Ingemann; Mason, David Ryan; Sanahuja, Haris; Ishizawa, Oscar A.; Solé, Albert
    Central America is undergoing an important transition. Urban populations are increasing at accelerated speeds, bringing pressing challenges for development, as well as opportunities to boost sustained, inclusive and resilient growth. Today, 59 percent of the region’s population lives in urban areas, but it is expected that 7 out of 10 people will live in cities within the next generation. At current rates of urbanization, Central America’s urban population will double in size by 2050, welcoming over 25 million new urban dwellers calling for better infrastructure, higher coverage and quality of urban services and greater employment opportunities. With more people concentrated in urban areas, Central American governments at the national and local levels face both opportunities and challenges to ensure the prosperity of their country’s present and future generations. The Central America Urbanization Review: Making Cities Work for Central America provides a better understanding of the trends and implications of urbanization in the six Central American countries -Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama- and the actions that central and local governments can take to reap the intended benefits of this transformation. The report makes recommendations on how urban policies can contribute to addressing the main development challenges the region currently faces such as lack of social inclusion, high vulnerability to natural disasters, and lack of economic opportunities and competitiveness. Specifically, the report focuses on four priority areas for Central American cities: institutions for city management, access to adequate and well-located housing, resilience to natural disasters, and competitiveness through local economic development. This book is written for national and local policymakers, private sector actors, civil society, researchers and development partners in Central America and all around the world interested in learning more about the opportunities that urbanization brings in the 21st century.