Policy Solutions for Managing Global Cities
This exercise relates to identifying a specific challenge and a solution to the management of global cities.
Pick any two global city management policy solutions that have been used in a specific place outside the United States.
Exemplary solutions include: participatory public budgeting in Porto Allegre, conditional cash transfers in Mexico, rapid transit in Curitiba and Bogota, mobile banking in Kenya (called m-pesa), microfinancing to women in Bangladesh (called Grameen bank), etc. The more creative the solution, the better it is.
Describe the main features of the policy solutions.
Explain if the solutions have diffused outside of the global city/ national context where it has been applied.
Explain if you think the solutions are applicable in Miami or any other American context.
I will grade the paper as per the following rubric:
Description of the policy solutions (10 points weight)
Diffusion of the policy solutions to other places (6 points weight)
Applicability of policy solutions to American context (6 points weight)
Structure, language, and citation (3 points weight)
The length of the paper – 6 pages, double spaced.
Include a list of references. Use APA style for writing the paper (see Purdue’s OWL (Links to an external site.) for more information on APA style).
