Vibrant cities attract people to live, work or invest in them. So what should you be focusing on if you're a city planner? How can you help your city function smartly and create sustainable growth for all?
Infrastructure as a stimulant of a city's economic growth and attracts inward investment is well understood by city planners. But what is less well recognised is the importance of housing as part of your infrastructure and the role that housing can play to help your city retain talent.
Every city official knows that if you’re not running a global capital, you’re going to have to work twice as hard to attract business investment. Being a second or third city might seem to be a handicap but it forces you to innovate, which can only be a good thing.
Public Financial Management (PFM) is evolving from a narrow focus on budgeting towards a wider mandate as a key driver of policy and strategy across all levels of government, public services, state enterprises and public-private partnerships.
Five years after the global financial crisis struck, residual effects continue to impact public financial management (PFM) in countries throughout the world.