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15/01/2023 12:00
I am not a great fan of the British weekly "The Economist", particularly of their recurrent stance against land and housing regulations. However they sometimes produce interesting pieces on urban issues, like the attached article on the positive evolution of Latin American cities.
Cities in Latin...
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21/11/2022 00:00
Daniel Biau, 20 November 2022
Yesterday in Sharm el-Sheikh, COP 27 decided that developed nations should help developing countries pay for the catastrophic consequences of climate change - a “historic” agreement reached after weeks of negotiations and celebrated by the participants.
We should...
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05/10/2022 00:00
The Urban Economy Forum is a Toronto-based initiative that focuses on urban economics and municipal finance. Its 4th session, on “Sustainable Urban Finance”, was held on 3-4 October 2022. Daniel Biau made the short intervention below in one of the round-tables.
Dear Colleagues,
I...
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14/07/2022 09:01
Elections France 2022.pdf (250,5 kB)
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28/06/2022 00:00
Il y a cinq ans les Français élisaient le plus jeune président de leur histoire et lui donnaient une majorité confortable à l’Assemblée nationale. Les partis traditionnels de droite et de gauche s’effaçaient de la scène politique. L’Assemblée comptait 75 % de nouveaux députés. Le...
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08/04/2022 09:00
General elections will take place in Kenya in August 2022. It is therefore time to have a look at the country achievements during the last five years.
Launched in December 2017, the “Big Four” Agenda was the Government's set of priority programmes to be implemented from 2018 to 2022. The Big Four...
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05/11/2021 23:00
The 1.2 trillion infrastructure plan, passed by Congress on 5 November 2021, contains $550 billion in new spending, over 5 years. The $1.2 trillion figure comes from including additional funding normally allocated each year for highways and other infrastructure projects. The package constitutes an...
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01/05/2021 19:37
Présentation du livre "Alioune Badiane, Homme du Futur" dans Global Urban Think Tank.
https://www.urbanistes.info/alioune-badiane-homme-du-futur-un-livre-essentiel/
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01/05/2021 19:31
Presentation of the book "Alioune Badiane, a Man of the Future" in Global Urban Think Tank.
https://www.urbanistes.info/alioune-badiane-a-man-of-the-future-an-essential-book/
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01/04/2021 00:00
Joe Biden unveiled his plan to plough $2tn in government spending into US infrastructure alongside $2tn in higher corporate taxes, as the first stage of a multitrillion-dollar effort to reshape the world’s largest economy over the next 8 years. The US President made the announcement in Pittsburgh,...
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