Stephen Jennings: belief

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…Can a subway system be built? I don’t think these problems — most of the rest of the developing world has been through exactly the same problems. They’re really problems of governance. They’re 99 percent problems of governance: water, power, municipal transport. These are all governance problems, not technical problems — urban realm. We know that these problems can be addressed. In my view, the governance issues here and in most of sub-Saharan Africa mean that these problems won’t be solved for the next 25 years at least. Hence the demand for new, modern urban environments. Should we be trying to title all land in Nairobi and in Kenya, or is it more efficient when you have a sector with untitled land, lower prices, less formality, arguably less regulation? What’s the right way to think about the land-titling issue?…

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