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...
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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...
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Arnab Datta
Sahil Gandhi
Richard Green
24 June, 2022
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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...
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Zovanga Kone
Maggie Y. Liu
Aaditya Mattoo
Çağlar Özden
Siddharth Sharma
25 May, 2018
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JNNURM: An Opportunity for Environmentally Sustainable Urbanisation
This project undertakes an analysis of the sustainability of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), the largest chunk of public sector funding channeled into urban India till da...
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Kavita Wankhade
01 December, 2012
- IGC Research on India
Public goods, location choice and the voting decisions of the urban poor
India is currently under-urbanised relative to its income level, leading to widespread expectations of large-scale rural-to-urban migration in coming years.
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Abhijit Banerjee
Anjali Bharadwaj
Rohini Pande
Michael Walton
30 March, 2011
- IGC Research on India
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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...
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Deepak Malghan
Sumit Mishra
Andaleeb Rahman
01 July, 2020
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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
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