Urbanisation

Mobility and congestion in urban India

Urban transportation in developing countries is prioritised for massive investments, yet little is known about the determinants of urban mobility in these countries. This article applies a methodology...

Prottoy A. Akbar Victor Couture Gilles Duranton Adam Storeygard
24 July, 2019

Articles

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

Smart congestion pricing: Testing travel incentives to reduce congestion in Bangalore

Severe peak-time traffic congestion is endemic in large cities in developing countries, both on roads as well as in public transportation, with important negative consequences. There is a pressing nee...

Esther Duflo Gabriel Kreindler Benjamin Olken
30 November, 2017

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The role of cities in ensuring good jobs

In light of India's rapid urbanisation, Rana Hasan looks at various factors which set large cities apart from smaller cities and rural areas: more job opportunities, higher wages, large manufacturing ...

Rana Hasan
14 September, 2022

Perspectives

Are cities holding India back from reaching its ambitious net zero targets?

While per capita emissions in global cities are significantly lower than the national average, large Indian cities like Delhi and Kolkata emit up to double the national average. Shah and Downes look a...

Sam Downes Jagan Shah
10 August, 2022

Perspectives

Urban India's housing supply response to migration-induced demand

Has urban housing supply in India kept pace with rising demand? Using Census data between 2001 and 2011, this article studies the market supply of housing in response to migration-induced housing dema...

Arnab Datta Sahil Gandhi Richard Green
24 June, 2022

Articles

Making city planning democratic: Reflections from ‘Main Bhi Dilli’ campaign

‘Main Bhi Dilli’ campaign was launched in 2018 to ensure inclusion of citizen voices in the Delhi Master Plan 2041. In this context, Shalaka Chauhan discusses the role of co-creation and citizen p...

Shalaka Chauhan
29 October, 2021

Notes from the Field

Challenges of solid waste management: The case of Patna city

Rapid urbanisation with insufficient planning has led to problems of solid waste management in several Indian cities. In this note, Uma Sarmistha discusses preliminary findings from a field study in t...

Uma Sarmistha
25 January, 2021

Notes from the Field

Residential segregation in urban India and persistence of caste

B.R. Ambedkar had exhorted lower-caste people to move towards cities to defy localism and benefit from the virtues of cosmopolitanism that urbanisation might provide. Using 2011 enumeration block-leve...

Naveen Bharathi Deepak Malghan Sumit Mishra Andaleeb Rahman
01 July, 2020

Articles

Mobility and congestion in urban India

Prottoy A. Akbar Victor Couture Gilles Duranton Adam Storeygard
24 July, 2019

Articles

Special purpose vehicles for smart cities: A question on governance

All 100 cities selected to become ‘smart cities’ under the Smart Cities Mission in India have Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs) incorporated in them. In this note, Meenakshi Sinha posits that the SP...

Meenakshi Sinha
05 July, 2019

Notes from the Field

Seasonal migration and health in India: Constraints for research and practice

Seasonal migrants in India engage in temporary informal work in work environments that actively flout labour laws on wages, work hours, and living conditions. The most significant impact of this is on...

Divya Ravindranath Divya Varma
25 March, 2019

Notes from the Field

Rural-urban migration in Bihar

Over the last decade, Bihar has experienced rapid economic growth and increasing urbanisation. The purpose of this project was to investigate the patterns of migration in Bihar. The study found that m...

Indrajit Roy
28 December, 2018

IGC Research on India

How India’s internal borders inhibit migration

Indians, particularly men seeking education and jobs, display a puzzling reluctance to cross state borders. This article explores the reasons for this migration pattern. A major culprit is India’s s...

Zovanga Kone Maggie Y. Liu Aaditya Mattoo Çağlar Özden Siddharth Sharma
25 May, 2018

Articles

Rapid urbanisation, rural-to-urban migration, and rural development: Evidence from 8,000 Indian towns

Rapid urbanisation and declining rural poverty are central features of many developing countries today, but there is little research on their relationship, especially on the impacts of rapid urbanisat...