Companion Paper 4
Companion Paper 7
“User’s Guide to Implementing City Competitiveness Interventions,” This paper supports cities in identifying management approaches that can help decision makers implement interventions to support the city economy. Prepared by Drilon Gashi and Joanna Watkins.
“Public-Private Dialogue for City Competitiveness,” This paper offers a framework for formulating structured dialogues at the city level, including objectives, analytics, and participants. Prepared by Dmitry Sivaev, Benjamin Herzberg, and Sumit Manchanda, in consultation with Steve Utterwulghe.
Companion Paper 5
Companion Paper 8
“What Do Multinational Firms Want from Cities?” This paper reviews what multinational firms want from cities from the perspective of intermediary consulting firms that provide location advisory services and city or regional investment promotion intermediaries. Prepared by Juni Tingting Zhu, Valerie Joy Santos, and Yago Aranda Larrey in consultation with Robert Whyte and Stefano Negri.
“What Makes a Good City Strategy” This paper reviews various approaches to city strategy-setting and identifies common pitfalls of city strategies based on a review of theoretical and empirical evidence. Prepared by Dmitry Sivaev in consultation with Sameh Wahba, Soraya Goga, and Austin Kilroy.
Companion Paper 6
“Growth Pathways: A Diagnostic Methodology for City Competitiveness,” and the City Snapshot diagnostic tool This paper provides a methodology for generating a snapshot of a city economy with reference to the performance of various sectors and firm types—and for identifying potential growth pathways. These diagnostics help decision makers to assess how competitive a city economy is, to understand what a city’s competitive advantages are, and to identify the key barriers that a city’s businesses are facing. Prepared by Dmitry Sivaev in consultation with Austin Kilroy and Stefano Negri.
Note Unless otherwise described, region in this paper refers to World Bank Group regions: Africa, East Asia and Pacific, Europe and Central Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, Middle East and North Africa, and South Asia.
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