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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