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Land and Poverty Conference 2017: Responsible Land Governance—Towards an Evidence-Based Approach

Lead author of the upcoming paper on urban expansion, Anjali Mahendra, moderated a session, Urban Expansion: Measurement Challenges and Implications for Policy. Panelists included Shlomo Angel, who leads the NYU Stern Urbanization Project; Mark Roberts, Senior Economist at the World Bank and co-lead on the Regional Urbanization Flagship; Chandan Deuskar, former Urban Planner at the World Bank and currently PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania; Annette Kim, Associate Professor of public policy at the University of Southern California and the founding director of SLAB, the Spatial Analysis Lab, and Kim’s student, Arthur Acolin.

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Anjali Mahendra

Director of Global Research, WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities

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