By Cristina D'Alessandro, Frannie Léautier
Cities and areas of management investigates the interplay among management, leaders and areas at a variety of degrees. It analyzes how areas and locations effect leaders and management, in addition to how the presence, distribution, motion, and focus of leaders in areas give a contribution to their transformation.
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Sales of kerosene in plastic cans on the side of the streets developed at a rapid pace; the mayor was well known to stop and confiscate such cans, pouring the kerosene to the ground to limit the danger of fires. There were local consequences of these patterns of energy sources—the green belt of trees that was planted to make Ouagadougou a green city was destroyed as people cut trees for wood and charcoal, but also to build their houses. There were regional consequences of the speed and extent of deforestation, for example, a loss of forest cover of 56,000 hectares in a decade (INSD-Burkina Faso).
1). 2), put pressure on the delivery of services. There were more visitors to the city, who had to be accommodated in their demands for better facilities and services. Many of the city services were well managed as a result of effective strategies with multiple objectives. 1 2006 27 165,134 79,191 Pasengers arriving in Ouagadougou Airport 1996 2006 Changes in the people sphere in Ouagadougou (1996–2008) Source: UN; INSD, Burkina Faso. 2 0 ric a a fri c tA es W D om es tic 0 Am 0% 972 10% id 20% 29827 50710 30% 25 1641 40% 1133 4338 50% 3144 1878 60% M 70% 60886 70607 80% 727 90% 462 1405 100% 1996 Evolution of arrivals by origin at Ouagadougou Airport (1996–2008) Source: INSD, Burkina Faso.
In 2008, the Boston Consulting Group listed 14 countries, and Pricewaterhouse Coopers counted 20 emerging markets in the same year, but Turkey is included in both. The MIST (Mexico, South Korea, Indonesia, and Turkey) could then be added to the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) or BRICS (if South Africa is included)! Despite some commonalities among the so-called MIST—large populations, markets, and economies at the global level—Turkey seems a peculiar case, having high unemployment and low domestic savings (Roughneen, 2011).