Building sustainable cities allows governments to invest in rural areas

When the provinces are weak, there is a need for a separate entity in order to facilitate, coordinate and deliver service at the metropolitan level.

As Global Director for the Urban, Resilience and Land Global Department at the World Bank, Ming Zhang leads the bank’s global efforts on sustainable urban development, disaster risk management, and land. Ming Zhang, who has had the experience of working all over the world, including in Nepal, holds a PhD in City and Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley. In this conversation with the Post ’s Biswas Baral, he discusses the challenges of urbanisation in developing countries, sustainable development of cities, and Nepal’s urban development status.