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Humanities and social sciences --- Stedelijke gebieden --- Social sciences --- Geography. --- Urban and regional planning. --- Algemeen.

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This background paper systematically maps and assesses the connectivity of cities in the Horn of Africa (HoA) and uses the results to proposes a number of policy perspectives on how to strategically boost connectivity in different parts of the region. Analytically, this is achieved through network analysis of the directness, the diversity, topology and the density of HoA cities' transport infrastructure connections. Crucially, network analysis allows proxying HoA cities' potential to participate in value chains at various geographical scales and identifying key areas of possible intervention. Results can guide institutional and governance measures that can be taken to influence connectivity as a whole and for specific cities and transport corridors in particular. The output can thus help determine the interventions that are needed to tackle bottlenecks in corridors, addressing infrastructure, policy and regulatory constraints. The remainder of this paper is organized as follows. Section 2 outlines the rationale for an analysis of inter-urban connectivity in general and its linkages with the broader topic of regional integration and the economic geographies of the HoA in particular. Section 3 discusses our analytical framework, while Section 4 discusses the results. The paper is concluded with a discussion of key policy perspectives in section 5.

Infrastructure Economics --- Infrastructure Economics and Finance --- Private Sector Development --- Private Sector Economics --- Transport --- Transport and Trade Logistics

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"With the advent of multinational corporations, the traditional urban service function has 'gone global.' In order to provide services to globalizing corporate clients, the offices of major financial and business service firms across the world have generated networks of work. It is the myriad of flows between office towers in different metropolitan centres that has produced a world city network. Taylor and Derudder's unique and illuminating book provides both an update and a substantial revision of the first edition that was published in 2004. It provides a comprehensive and systematic description and analysis of the world city network as the 'skeleton' upon which contemporary globalization has been built. Through an analysis of the intra-company flows of 175 leading global service firms across 526 cities in 2012, this book assesses cities in terms of their overall network connectivity, the regional configurations they form, and their changing position in the period 2000-12. Results are used to reflect on cities and city/state relations in the context of the global ecological and economic crisis. Written by two of the foremost authorities on the subject, this book provides a much-needed mapping of the connecting relationships between world cities, and will be an invaluable resource for students of urban studies, geography, sociology and planning"--

International relations. Foreign policy --- globalization --- urban management --- Economic geography --- Cities and towns. --- Globalization. --- Intergovernmental cooperation. --- Business networks. --- Information networks. --- Regionalism. --- Service industries. --- Economic geography. --- Financial crises. --- Global environmental change. --- Environmental change, Global --- Global change, Environmental --- Global environmental changes --- Change --- Ecology --- Crashes, Financial --- Crises, Financial --- Financial crashes --- Financial panics --- Panics (Finance) --- Stock exchange crashes --- Stock market panics --- Crises --- Business cycles --- Geography, Economic --- World economics --- Geography --- Commercial geography --- Industries --- Human geography --- Nationalism --- Interregionalism --- Automated information networks --- Networks, Information --- Information services --- Information storage and retrieval systems --- Business networking --- Networking, Business --- Networks, Business --- Social networks --- Industrial clusters --- Strategic alliances (Business) --- Cooperative government arrangements --- Cooperation --- Public administration --- Interagency coordination --- Global cities --- Globalisation --- Internationalization --- International relations --- Anti-globalization movement --- Municipalities --- Towns --- Urban areas --- Urban systems --- Human settlements --- Sociology, Urban --- Cities and towns --- Globalization --- Intergovernmental cooperation --- Business networks --- Information networks --- Regionalism --- Service industries --- Financial crises --- Global environmental change --- Climatic changes

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Economic geography --- Cities and towns --- Globalization --- Cities and towns. --- Globalization. --- Geografie --- Economische geografie --- Wereldeconomie Globalisering.