24 July, 2019Real 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...
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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...
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Esther Duflo Gabriel Kreindler Benjamin Olken
- 30 November, 2017
- IGC Research on India
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...
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Naveen Bharathi Deepak Malghan Sumit Mishra Andaleeb Rahman
- 01 July, 2020
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Driving restrictions in Delhi: Real benefits and warning signs
The driving restrictions policy that Delhi experimented with in January was implemented for a second time in April for a fortnight. This column finds that the policy lowered traffic congestion; the i...
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Gabriel Kreindler
- 15 June, 2016
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The Growth of Cities in India, 1870-2020
The aim of this project is to understand the determinants of city growth in India in the short run and over the long period. By analysing data on cities from every decennial Census conducted in India ...
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Chinmay Tumbe
- 20 February, 2016
- IGC Research on India
Data-jam: Could data reduce road congestion in Dhaka?
While urbanisation is key to economic growth, failure to address the downsides of the process - such as congestion - may deter the ability of cities to achieve their full growth potential. This colum...
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Filippo Sebastio
- 01 February, 2016
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The Changing Face of Circular Migration in Bihar
The aim of this project is to investigate the changing patterns of circular migration from rural Bihar, the place of origin for many of India's labour/seasonal migrants. The study focuses specifically...
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Indrajit Roy
- 14 January, 2016
- IGC Research on India
One step forward, one step back? Ahmedabad's evolving urban policy
India’s urbanisation process has come to be characterised by haphazard growth of cities, the costs of which are borne disproportionately by the poor. This column analyses Ahmedabad’s urban policy...
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Tanvi Bhatkal
- 02 November, 2015
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India on the move: The commuting worker
About 25 million workers in India commute daily for work, from rural to urban areas or vice versa, or have no fixed place of work. This column finds that rural households with at least one rural-to-ur...
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S. Chandrasekhar Ajay Sharma
- 10 September, 2014
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Growing through cities in India
Do cities grow through specialisation or diversity? This column measures specialisation and diversity for the manufacturing and services sectors in India. It finds that Indian districts with a broade...
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Ejaz Ghani William Kerr Ishani Tewari
- 20 June, 2014
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A unique, informal banking system of rickshaw drivers in cities
Seasonal, rural migrants that drive rickshaws in cities have little or no access to formal financial institutions. Based on a survey of over 100 rickshaw drivers in Delhi, this article highlights a un...
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Garima Agarwal Shashank Bhatt Skand Goel Arushi Kaushik
- 04 June, 2014
- Notes from the Field
What makes cities more competitive in India?
Policymakers in both developed and developing countries want to make cities more competitive, attract new entrepreneurs, boost economic growth, and promote job creation. This column shows that the two...
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Ejaz Ghani William Kerr Stephen D O'Connell
- 07 March, 2014
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India's spatial disparities: Have big cities become too congested?
A key driver of the Indian economy is its rapidly growing service sector. This column compares the spatial growth pattern of the sector in India and other countries. It is found that while in US and ...
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Klaus Desmet Ejaz Ghani Esteban Hansberg Stephen D O'Connell
- 17 January, 2014
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JNNURM and environmental sustainability
Can entrepreneurship be a vehicle for social mobility in India? This column analyses data from micro, small and medium enterprises, and finds clear and persistent caste and gender disparities in virtu...
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Kavita Wankhade
- 23 September, 2013
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Electricity demand in urban Indian households: Influencing consumer behaviour
The huge and fast growing urban middle class of India uses a significant amount of electricity at their homes. This column argues that there is a need to focus on managing demand of electricity, and d...
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Anant Sudarshan
- 08 April, 2013
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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
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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
Moving towards better definitions of 'urban' in India
According to the 2011 Census, 31% of the country is ‘urban’. Using definitions of urbanisation that are different from those used by the government, this column demonstrates that this figure may ...
- Komal Hiranandani Mudit Kapoor Vaidehi Tandel
- 15 September, 2016
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