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The (true) Living Wage is an hourly rate of pay set independently and updated annually (not the UK government's National Living Wage …
£70 million allocated in areas affected by civil disturbances across London including 23 projects in 9 boroughs and 13 distinct locations
Invest Lisboa is Lisbon’s investment promotion agency. It's a one-stop shop for companies, investors and entrepreneurs looking to invest or set up …
The Berlin Equal Opportunities Program has become an important instrument of university equality policy. The state universities of the state of Berlin, …
IN Amsterdam offers a simplified process for registration, residence permits and BSN for international newcomers and companies looking to hire highly skilled …
4-year social entrepreneurship programme now focused on impact entrepreneurship. Amsterdam Impact strengthens the ecosystem for all companies that simultaneously create financial and …
NYC DOT turned Broadway road space into interim plazas with paint and furniture from 2009, then made them permanent after data showed …
Bogotá closes ~100+ km of streets to cars every Sunday and holiday; a 2011 four-city analysis found $3.23–$4.26 in medical costs saved …
Since 2008, Cleveland's Evergreen Cooperatives has used anchor-institution procurement from the Cleveland Clinic and University Hospitals to build worker-owned firms; by 2021 …
Bogotá's first 'vital neighbourhood', San Felipe, reallocated 1,745 m² of street space to pedestrians and cut traffic accidents 46%; the city, working …
Tecnalia, formed in 2011 by merging eight Basque applied-research centres, reported €137M turnover in 2023 (+7.4%), 741 patents and 17 new deep-tech …
Preston City Council and local anchor institutions redirected billions in procurement spend toward local suppliers and cooperatives from 2013, lifting council local …
Reykjavík City and Iceland's government cut over 2,500 public workers to a 35–36 hour week at full pay; productivity held or rose, …
Freetown City Council replaced ad hoc property valuation with GIS mapping, a points-based formula and the Moptax digital platform, doubling the tax …
A property-owner-funded Special Rates Area has run Cape Town's CBD safety and cleaning services since 2000, cutting festive-season crime 34% year-on-year and …
Curitiba's 1974 Rede Integrada de Transporte, the world's first true Bus Rapid Transit system, now carries roughly 2 million passenger trips a …
Founded in Bonn in 1990, ICLEI now links over 2,500 local and regional governments across 125+ countries in a peer-learning network for …
Bangladesh's largest market-systems programme, Katalyst, worked with private firms to reach 4.75 million SMEs and farmers by 2018, generating a documented USD …
Ghana's 2019 Year of Return drew 1.13m international arrivals (+27% YoY) and US$3.3bn in tourism revenue per the Tourism Ministry, then extended …
A 2022 tri-partite deal between Carnegie Mellon, the Mastercard Foundation and Rwanda's government committed $275.7m -- including a $175m perpetual endowment -- …
Since the mid-1970s, Vienna's district renewal offices have guided tenant-led rehabilitation of ageing housing without displacement, upgrading over 142,000 apartments in 2,160 …
Quito's planning authority and an Austrian/Ecuadorian/CIAT research team used the GeoCitizen participatory-GIS platform to run a 2013 land-zoning process on Ilaló Mountain …
Barcelona City Council built the open-source platform Decidim to run participatory budgeting and planning; its 2016 strategic-plan process drew 40,000+ citizens and …
Jordan's ISSF mobilised $108.97m in private capital alongside $98m in World Bank and Central Bank financing, backing ~160 startups and 22 investment …
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