81-85 of 251 matching articles 5 20 100 All Opening Asian cities up to foreign knowledge workers: Kuala Lumpur and Ho Chi Minh Rowan Fraser • 15 October 2013 Rowan Fraser discusses a promising trend in Asian cities successfully attracting foreign knowledge workers to spur knowledge-based local development. For Cairo's street vendors, the revolution is not yet fully won Does Vandousselaere • 21 March 2013 Cairo's street vendors have benefited from the turmoil of post-revolutionary Egypt, but their demands still fall on deaf ears at the national level. The waterline is rising on environmental risks threatening Bangkok's successful MRT Rowan Fraser • 23 July 2013 Bangkok's MRT deploys simple measures for effective flood risk control, however, with expansions planned, concern is emerging over its responses to climate change, earthquake risk and rising sea levels. What's wrong with renting? Home ownership not the only solution for India's slum dwellers Asako Matsukawa / Beyond Profit • 9 July 2010 Governments often assume that home ownership is the main tool for housing their urban poor, but this neglects the usefulness of renting, which is important at all income levels. Worst fears abated for World Cup relocations Benjamin Bradlow / Shack/Slum Dwellers International • 1 July 2010 Eviction of poor residents has been less than expected in the run-up to the World Cup in South Africa, but the urban poor have nonetheless seen little economic benefit from the event. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51
