STATE OF THE WORLD'S CITIES 2012/2013 Prosperity

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1.0 0.9 0.8 0.7 0.6 0.5 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.1 0 Figure 1.1.6 Cities with weak prosperity factors CPI Index (with �ve dimensions) CPI Index (with four dimensions) Lusaka Dar es Salaam Harare Dakar Productivity Index Quality of Life Index Addis Ababa La Paz of these cities perform better on the environment indicator (low emissions of fine particles (PM10). Recent progress in Ghana in the economic and political spheres looks certain to improve the CPI value for Accra, which at the moment is low (0.533) due to poor economic performance (0.347). Addis Ababa features relatively low in all CPI components, and this relative uniformity reflects a fair balance among the ‘spokes’ (0.52 on average). The city continues to make progress, thanks to higher investment in infrastructure and construction, manufacturing and tertiary activities. This in turn paves the way for job creation, and it is for central government to ensure that this economic model, which involves several dimensions of prosperity, retains both momentum and good synchronization. Various cities/countries from this group have a The bulk of this recent past marred by FACT bracket can be conflicts, political instability found in Africa: Abidjan, or economic crisis. The Accra, Addis Ababa, city product of Harare Dakar, Dar Es Salam, (0.246), not long ago a Harare, Kampala, Lagos and Lusaka. Also very vibrant economic included are Dhaka, centre, is almost as low as Kathmandu and La Paz. that of post-conflict cities Accra Infrastructure Development Index Environmental Sustainability Index Lagos 23 Equity Index Conceptualizing Urban Prosperity like Monrovia (0.048), Antananarivo (0.171) or Conakry (0.133). In 2002, Zimbabwe recorded the lowest slum prevalence of the region, and one of the lowest of all the developing world (four per cent); poor governance, political instability and massive housing evictions in 2005 have raised that percentage to 17 per cent, mainly due to overcrowding; and yet, Harare features high infrastructure development (0.899), similar to that of emerging economy cities like Ankara, Manila, Mexico City or Mumbai. Quality of life in Harare is also very low, Kampala Dhaka Kathmundu Abidjan POLICy Poor performance of the ‘hub’ points to the need for more effective urban power functions such as governance, urban planning, laws, regulations, and institutions that can pave the way for more prosperous futures for these cities. El Alto, Bolivia: a large and poorly serviced part of greater La Paz, where the population is 80% indigenous © Eduardo Lopez Moreno
State of the World’s Cities 2012/2013 reflecting a dramatic There are only reduction in life expectancy FACT five cities with (to 1970s levels). Similar very weak prosperity declines are also observed in factors (CPI below 0.500) in UN-Habitat’s worldwide the Democratic Republic of sample – Bamako, Congo, Lesotho, Swaziland Antananarivo, Monrovia, or Zambia. Niamey and Conakry. Their It is important to common feature is that they note that inequality have recently experienced further weakens the CPI various types of conflict with various degrees of values for Lagos, Harare intensity. In each of them, and Lusaka. When the production, quality of life equity index is included and infrastructure indicators in the CPI, all three cities are very low. move from ‘weak’ to ‘very weak’ prosperity factors (below 0.500). Cities with very weak prosperity factors (CPI below 0.500): Cities in this bracket feature contrasted patterns among the sub-indices in the CPI. For some, the dispersion of index values across the ‘spokes’ reflects institutional and structural problems. For others, the five dimensions of prosperity do converge, only at very low values, a hallmark of dysfunctional systems, institutional failures, sluggish economic growth as well as widespread poverty and destitution. Box 1.1.5 visualizing the 5 dimensions of the CPI Equity index Quality of life index 1.0 Environmental index Productivity index 0.5 0 Infrastructure index Vienna Mexico City Johannesburg The two pentagons represent the five ‘spokes’ of prosperity as measured in five cities and the extent to which they are imbalanced /balanced in relation to each other. The radar-shaped graphs suggest where policy interventions are required. For instance, Nairobi (to the right) performs well in terms of the environment and infrastructure, but less so on equity, productivity and quality of life. In Cairo, the situation is the reverse, as the 24 1.0 0.9 0.8 0.7 0.6 0.5 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.1 0 Figure 1.1.7 Cities with very weak prosperity factors CPI Index (with �ve dimensions) CPI Index (with four dimensions) Infrastructure Development Index Environmental Sustainability Index Monrovia Conakry Antananarivo Productivity index Productivity Index Quality of Life Index Equity Index Bamako Niamey Equity index Quality of life index 1.0 Environmental index 0.5 0 Vienna Cairo Nairobi Infrastructure index environment appears to be the weaker point in an otherwise well-balanced pattern of prosperity – although at an overall lower level compared with Vienna. Similar interpretations can be derived from the pentagon to the left, which compares the relative performances of revealing the prosperity patterns for the Mexico and Johannesburg, again against Vienna’s.
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