Amazon.com description: Product Description: Nigeria s cities already home to 85 million people are expected to double that number in 30 years. Even in the best of times, this rate of growth would challenge the provision of sufficient land, finance, infrastructure, and other services. Yet the country is also grappling with the dramatic plunge in world oil prices. Bustling urban centers, when well served, can boost economic growth and slash poverty. To seize that opportunity, Nigeria needs to implement significant and urgent reforms. From Oil to Cities: Nigeria s Next Transformation explores urbanization in the country to help illuminate the way forward. The Overview summarizes trends in urbanization and establishes a framework to understand the core challenges and their underlying causes. Chapter 1 looks at the dynamics of urbanization, the large-scale urban expansion; and the persistently high urban poverty, inequality, and regional disparities. Chapter 2 examines urban economic growth in the context of its concentration across states and cities, noting the disappointing success to date of urban and regional economies in generating employment and improving business climates. Chapter 3 analyzes land management, urban planning, and housing provision. All three are troubled by high costs and low affordability, lack of requisite skills, and inefficiency. Chapter 4 focuses on the provision of urban public goods and services, an area in which the need is clear for financial, institutional, and systemic reforms. This book is part of the Urbanization Review, a new global series from the World Bank s Social, Urban, Rural, and Resilience Global Practice. A diagnostic tool designed to inform policy and investment priorities in urbanization, the series is based on the framework for urban policy developed in the World Development Report 2009 Reshaping Economic Geography and on System of Cities: Harnessing Urbanization for Growth and Poverty Reduction.