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Realizing the Potential of Pakistan’s Secondary Cities

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dc.contributor.authorWorld Bank
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-21T18:11:22Z
dc.date.available2024-06-21T18:11:22Z
dc.date.issued2024-06-21
dc.description.abstractPakistan is currently navigating an unfavorable urban trajectory. Poor urban management is preventing it from realizing the full promise of urbanization in the form of improved prosperity and livability. City growth is poorly planned, housing and service delivery lag badly, and city residents are, increasingly, exposed to environmental hazards. These conditions arise from a weak, ineffective, and unsuitable urban management and financing system that has regressed rather than strengthened over time. For Pakistan to harness the potential of its urbanization to lead it out of poverty, boost national productivity, and act as an engine of growth, the institutional and fiscal architecture of urban management and local government requires fundamental reform. The current system must be empowered by a more coherent, accountable, and capacitated structure that gives municipal institutions functional responsibility for the built environment and key infrastructure sectors (water, sewerage, solid waste, roads, and drainage, among others), within geographical jurisdictions aligned with the actual population and spatial boundaries of Pakistan’s evolving urban system. And these institutions must be anchored to a fiscal and financial system that can generate and effectively spend the resources necessary for sustainable urban development, while also encouraging private sector involvement in municipal service provision. To achieve this, concerted and sustained action is needed toward decentralization reforms at both federal and provincial levels.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099060624114031544/P1756071546dd400e1ba7b1b6a2bdeb3a49
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/41756
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/41756
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherWashington, DC: World Bank
dc.rightsCC BY-NC 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/igo
dc.subjectURBANIZATION AND GROWTH
dc.subjectURBAN GOVERNANCE AND CITY SYSTEMS
dc.subjectURBAN DEVELOPMENT
dc.subjectCITY PLANNING SYSTEMS
dc.subjectURBAN ACCESSIBILITY
dc.subjectSUSTAINABLE CITIES AND COMMUNITIES
dc.subjectSDG 11
dc.subjectPEACE, JUSTICE AND STRONG INSTITUTIONS
dc.subjectSDG 16
dc.titleRealizing the Potential of Pakistan’s Secondary Citiesen
dc.typeReport
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okr.crossref.titleRealizing the Potential of Pakistan’s Secondary Cities
okr.date.disclosure2024-06-21
okr.date.lastmodified2024-06-06T00:00:00Zen
okr.doctypeReport
okr.doctypePublications & Research
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099060624114031544/P1756071546dd400e1ba7b1b6a2bdeb3a49
okr.guid099060624114031544
okr.identifier.docmidP175607-546dd427-71a9-4c0e-ba7b-b6a2bdeb3a49
okr.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1596/41756
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum34336190
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum34336190
okr.identifier.report190955
okr.import.id4549
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okr.language.supporteden
okr.pdfurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099060624114031544/pdf/P1756071546dd400e1ba7b1b6a2bdeb3a49.pdfen
okr.region.administrativeSouth Asia
okr.region.countryPakistan
okr.sectorSub-National Government
okr.themeUrban Infrastructure and Service Delivery,Municipal Institution Building,Gender,Human Development and Gender,Data Development and Capacity Building,Rural Development,Public Sector Management,Urban Planning,Urban and Rural Development,Geospatial Services,Data production, accessibility and use,Public Administration,Urban Development,Municipal Finance
okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Urban Partnerships & Poverty
okr.topicGovernance::Regional Governance
okr.topicUrban Development::City Development Strategies
okr.topicUrban Development::Regional Urban Development
okr.topicUrban Development::National Urban Development Policies & Strategies
okr.topicCommunities and Human Settlements::Urban Communities
okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Urban Partnerships & Poverty
okr.topicUrban Development::Urban Economic Development
okr.unitUrban SAR 1 (SSAU1)
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