poverty in all sectors and locations. However, in terms of elasticity of poverty, urban services growth has the largest for … all sectors except urban agriculture. We also find that rural agriculture growth strongly reduces poverty in the rural … poverty reduction is by focusing on rural agriculture and urban services growth. In the long run, however, the focus should be …

, and growing. However, neither urban infrastructure nor the level of urban public services is adequate for current needs … towards some possible solutions by analysing urban governance and finance in India in the context of lessons drawn from fiscal … system of urban governance is likely to work equally well for all urban local bodies. However, the paper identifies some key …

The paper aims to assess the fiscal health of five urban agglomerations (UAs) in India viz. Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata …, Chennai, and Pune. Our sample consists of five corporations and sixty three smaller Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) dispersed in …

provincial (both rural and urban) level, using the primary data of the Pakistan Social Standard Living Measures Survey (PSLM …