Africa needs public-finance reforms to set its cities free

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Rapid urbanisation and climate change mean that African cities need their own powers to raise finance.

Co-ordinated reforms at city, national and international level are needed if African cities are to manage their process of expansion, Astrid Haas, an urban economist with the ODI, tellsAfter BHP, is Glencore tempted to take on Anglo American?

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