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We are all familiar with the sizeable gap that exists between developing countries’ urban infrastructure requirements and the funds those countries have available to pay for them — a gap that has certainly widened in the troubled economic environment of the 1980s. Financing, however, is not always the binding constraint. Around the world today there are many funded projects that are not moving ahead simply because there is no one available to manage them. More broadly, the lack of trained managers is constraining the expansion of all basic urban government functions in the face of the unparalleled growth of the cities and towns in the developing world. This problem is one of the major barriers to the “replicability” of innovations in urban development (Cohen, 1983) This paper assesses the scope and future of the urban management challenge and describes a promising approach now being implemented in Indonesia: the Integrated Urban Infrastructure Development Program (IUIDP).
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Kingsley, G.T. (1989). Addressing the Urban Management Challenge: Indonesia’s Integrated Urban Infrastructure Development Program. In: May, R. (eds) The Urbanization Revolution. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-1616-0_8
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