Nepal, June 9 -- 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.

The World Bank has just come out with its Banking on Cities report on ways to make cities in lower and middle income countries more resilient and sustainabl...