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A competitive city is a city that successfully facilitates its firms and industries to create jobs, raise productivity, and increase the incomes of citizens over time. Worldwide, improving the competitiveness of cities is a pathway to eliminating extreme poverty and to promoting shared prosperity. The primary source of job creation has been the growth of private sector firms, which have typically accounted for around 75 percent of job creation. Thus city leaders need to be familiar with the factors that help to attract, to retain, and to expand the private sector. This document aims to analyze what makes a city competitive and how more cities can become competitive.

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Remarks delivered by Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group discuss the critical role of inclusive and sustainable industrialization in the future global development agenda, including to end extreme poverty by 2030. He speaks about working with UNIDO and the government of Ethiopia to ensure that new industrial parks make use of recycled water and renewable resources, develop green areas, and reflect upgraded environment standards and environmental inspection systems. The World Bank Group is looking for opportunities to work closely with UNIDO on industrial zones in Senegal.

Air Quality --- Business --- Business Development --- Business Development Services --- City Development Strategies --- Foreign Direct Investment --- Ict Policy and Strategies --- Industrial Economics --- Industrial Parks --- Industrialization --- Industry --- Information and Communication Technologies --- Infrastructure --- Innovation --- Partnerships --- Poverty --- Private Investment --- Private Sector --- Private Sector Development --- Small Businesses --- Technology Transfer --- Transport --- Urban Development --- Value Chains