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Raising revenue from land

What African cities might learn from Hong Kong’s unique land-lease system ANALYSIS | ASTRID R.N. HAAS | Land prices across many African cities are soaring. This is because land is a city’s key asset. As urbanisation progresses, demand for land will rise, and therefore so will land prices, because the supply of land in …

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New look at Kampala, Kigali and Addis Ababa

They are changing fast: new book follows their distinct paths Kampala, Uganda | ASTRID R.N. HAAS | Kampala, the Ugandan capital where I live, is naturally the city I have studied and worked on the most as an urban economist. Yet even with this background, reading Tom Goodfellow’s recently published book, …

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Food during lockdowns

How to ensure poor people in cities can still get it | ASTRID R.N HAAS | More than half of all African countries have now imposed lockdown measures aimed at flattening the curve of new COVID-19 infections. The reason for taking such drastic measures while infection rates are still relatively …

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Uganda needs a caffeine fix

Insights from Vietnam’s coffee market success By: Astrid R.N. Haas Until recently Vietnam and Uganda shared a similar trajectory in the development of their coffee sectors. Today, Vietnam has emerged as the second largest coffee producer in the world. In Uganda, poor agricultural inputs and a failing institutional environment have …

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