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    The New Urban Agenda and Demographic Dividend: Investment for Africa’s Youth

    Africa, Office of the Special Adviser on | January 2019
    Abstract
    This report summarizes Africa’s rapid and idiosyncratic urbanization and the challenges and opportunities such kinetic growth present to implementing the NUA, realizing Sustainable Development Goal 11 on sustainable cities and communities, and fulfilling Agenda 2063’s Aspiration 6 on empowered and engaged youth. It further highlights policy intervention areas that would harness the forces of urbanization to capitalize on Africa’s demographic dividend and advance sustainable development.
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    Africa, Office of the Special Adviser on. 2019. The New Urban Agenda and Demographic Dividend: Investment for Africa’s Youth. © Brookings India. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/9978.
    Keywords
    Asian Development Bank
    Development
    Sustainable Development
    Urban Area
    Urban Areas
    Urban Population
    Urbanization
    Urban Services
    Urban Projects
    Urban Problems
    Urban Poverty
    Urban Policy
    Urban Planning
    Urban Infrastructure
    Urban Health
    Urban Government
    Urban Economic Development
    Urban Development Finance
    Urban Development
    Urban Conditions
    Urban Communities
    Urban Population
    Aid And Development
    Asian Development Bank
    Comprehensive Development Framework
    Development Cooperation
    Development Management
    Development Planning
    Development Strategies
    Development In East Asia
    Development Planning
    Development Research
    Economic development
    Cities
    Sustainable growth
    Economic development
    Urban Plans
    Urbanism
    Urban agriculture
    Rural Urban Migration
    Cities
    Cultural Development
    Development Economics
    Development Issues
    Migration
    Investment
    Sustainable development
    Local government
    Urban renewal
    Urban housing
    Urban sociology
    Transit systems
    Rapid transit
    Public transit
    Mass transit
    Wages
    Land Acquisition
    Infrastructure
    City planning
    Urban impact analysis
    Real estate development
    Central planning
    City planning
    Civic improvement
    Urban renewal
    Urban beautification
    Urban transportation
    Zoning
    Hotels
    Industry
    Land Acquisition
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