Quezon City Administrator Aldrin Cuña represented the Quezon City Government in World Bank Tokyo Development Learning Center (TLDC) forum, aimed at providing city officials and decision-makers with practical tools, networks and experiences to push and lead economic development agenda in their cities.
The city administrator attended the Technical Deep Dive (TDD) in Tokyo from October 30 to November 3, 2017, to share Quezon City’s best practices on competitiveness and how it tackles problems in urbanization such as job creation and raising productivity, among others.
Quezon City has been adjudged as “the country’s most competitive city”, for two consecutive years and has reaped various other awards on governance and innovation.
According to World Bank, cities generate more than 60 percent of global GDP. About three-quarters of the largest cities have also grown faster than their national economies since the early 2000s.
The contribution of cities to national and global economic development is partially attributed to higher productivity resulting from economies of urbanization and localization that attract skilled workers as well as more productive entrepreneurs and firms, the World Bank’s report “Competitive Cities: A Local Solution to a Global Lack of Growth and Jobs” said.
It also pointed out the importance of public private coalitions in identifying direction for city economic development and on following policy levers that national and local government could access in driving competitiveness.
The Competitive Cities TDD is jointly organized by the World Bank Social, Urban, Rural and Resilient Global Practice (GSURR), the Trade and Competitiveness Global Practice, Competitive Cities Community of Practice (CoP), City of Kobe, City of Yokohama, and the Government of Japan. | via Quezon City Local Government
