Tag Search: “infrastructure”
Real estate cross-subsidisation for infrastructure financing: A precarious solution for urban development?
A means of urban development financing that has emerged in Indian cities is real estate cross-subsidisation, whereby land along the mass rapid transit system corridors is offered to private developers...
- Meenakshi Sinha
- 08 January, 2018
- Notes from the Field
Making India open-defecation free by 2019
Swachh Bharat Mission – the flagship sanitation programme of the Indian government – aims to make India open-defecation free by 2019. However, this has only been achieved in 17 of 686 districts so far...
- Bhaskar Pant
- 06 September, 2017
- Perspectives
Off-grid solar power and the future of rural electrification in India
Off-grid solar power is a potential alternative to grid extension in rural electrification. This column reports results from a recent experiment with an off-grid lighting intervention in Uttar Pradesh...
- Michaёl Aklin Patrick Bayer S.P. Harish Johannes Urpelainen
- 17 July, 2017
- Articles
Why doesn’t anybody know if Swachh Bharat Mission is succeeding?
In 2014, the Prime Minister announced a goal of eliminating open defecation by 2019. In this article, Coffey and Spears, contend that now almost two-thirds of the way through the Swachh Bharat Mission...
- Diane Coffey Dean Spears
- 10 July, 2017
- Perspectives
Building institutional capacity for rural sanitation in Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state with about 200 million people, has historically not performed well on sanitation. In this article, Mariappa Kullappa of the World Bank Water Global Practice ...
- Mariappa Kullappa
- 29 June, 2017
- Notes from the Field
Economic benefits of transportation infrastructure: Historical evidence from India and America
Significant public finance is devoted to transportation infrastructure, the economic benefits of which are often unclear. This column analyses two major railroad projects in India and US in the 19th c...
- Dave Donaldson
- 21 June, 2017
- Articles
Aadhaar: It's not black and white
Amidst the emerging privacy concerns surrounding the success of Aadhaar and its integration in our day-to-day lives, Outline India conducted a survey in Delhi to understand people's reception of Aadh...
- Anindita Adhikari
- 31 May, 2017
- Perspectives
Highway network designs and regional economic development
The Indian National Highway Development Project and its components such as the Golden Quadrilateral or the North-South and East-West corridors are planned to alleviate constraints due to insufficient...
- Simon Alder
- 03 April, 2017
- Articles
Bidding for roads
This project aims to understand how to make it harder for local politicians to capture small-scale infrastructure projects. In the context of the bidding process for contracts under India’s flagship r...
- Oliver Eynde Jacob Shapiro
- 31 March, 2017
- IGC Research on India
Infrastructure and economic growth: The role of airports
Given that banking sectors in low-income countries are inefficient, why don’t lenders from wealthier countries profitably lend to productive firms in these countries? One possibility is that foreign l...
- Natalie Bau Jesse Schreger
- 31 March, 2017
- IGC Research on India
Constructing housing for the poor without destroying their communities
The Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana aims to achieve housing for all by 2022. However, vacancy of 23% was reported last year in urban housing built under the programme. In this article, Rohini Pande, conte...
- Rohini Pande
- 24 March, 2017
- Notes from the Field
Smart meters for promoting energy efficiency in rural India
This project brings experimental and quasi-experimental research methods to bear on important issues confronting rural electrification initiatives.
- Meredith Fowlie Catherine Wolfram
- 31 January, 2017
- IGC Research on India