State of the World’s Cities 2012/2013
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Large concentrations of slums impose enormous burdens on urban authorities that often lack the resources to provide even the most basic services, with obvious consequences on prosperity. Rather than opting for proactive perspective on urban development, cities with large concentrations of slums are likely to adopt antagonistic or fragmentary approaches, which among other shortcomings tends to be expensive in the long term.
Mumbai, India: where there is inadequate access to, or provision of, resources, people will improvise dwellings using whatever comes to hand. © 2012 Nicola Barranger/fotoLIBRA.com
High cost of doing business
of doing business and thus, likely to be less prosperous compared to other African cities located in countries where the cost of doing business in low. In Latin America and the Caribbean, Brazil, Honduras, Bolivia, Haiti and Suriname are ranked relatively low on the ease of doing business. In Brazilian
In Africa, countries like Mauritania, Cameroon, Burundi, Benin, Eritrea, and Guinea Bissau are ranked low in terms of the ease of doing business.34 This means that their capital cities – Nouakchott, Yaoundé, Bujumbura, Porto Novo, Asmara and Bissau, will be characterized by a high cost 100