Bamako : An Engine of Growth and Service Delivery
This study focuses on Bamako, the capital of Mali, that dominates the country’s urban landscape. Acentral premise of policy-making in cities is that the flexibility, practicality, and focus of local governments make them ideal players to understand...
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| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2019
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/154691549486819482/Bamako-Urban-Sector-Review-An-Engine-of-Growth-and-Service-Delivery http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31321 |
| Summary: | This study focuses on Bamako, the
capital of Mali, that dominates the country’s urban
landscape. Acentral premise of policy-making in cities is
that the flexibility, practicality, and focus of local
governments make them ideal players to understand and
respond to the needs of their citizens. Indeed, cities
mostly aim their problem-solving at local conditions. In
Mali, the economic importance of the capital city cannot be
understated – it is the nerve center of the national
economy. If the capital, Bamako, were to be removed, Mali
would lose 36 percent of GDP. Thus, reforms and investments
aimed at tackling urban development challenges in the
capital will have knock-on effects on national economic
development. This report also demonstrates how a variety of
data could be used for urban innovations: opportunistic
data, which is collected for one purpose and then used for
another (such as data owned by cellphone companies and then
used to understand urban mobility); purposely-sensed data,
which is collected using cheap and ubiquitous sensors that
can be deployed in public spaces (for instance, to better
understand land and building use); and user-generated data,
which comes from engaging people through social media
platforms or crowdsourcing (for instance, through Open
Street Map communities to track urban infrastructure
investments and use). A summary of recommendations for
unleashing Bamako’s potential includes coordinating land use
and connective infrastructure, financing and managing better
public service delivery, and investing in urban institutions. |
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