rounds acting as a constraint on comparisons, and using urban poverty ration of the old method as a starting point to decide …

differentials across rich and poor states and across rich and poorer strata and rural urban segments of 19 major Indian states. The … disparities even between rural and urban strata and rich and poorer sections of the society. These are indicated by high …

consumption of public goods of individuals in non slum urban India dominates those of individuals living in slums is accepted … while the hypothesis that consumption of private goods of individuals in non slum urban India dominates those of individuals …This paper provides a robust multidimensional evaluation of intra -urban differences. The hypothesis that joint …

The study investigates if the present pattern of urban development in India in the creation of mega cities sustainable … (Shanghai, London, and Singapore) using indicators. The objectives of the study are: (i) developing sustainable urban indicator … sustainable urban system. Economic, Environmental, social and institutional indicators are proposed to be examined in the context …

Despite urban areas covering less than 1 of the world, they host over 50 of the world's population. As population and … resulting products and wastes. One method of measuring resource use efficiency is through the analysis of urban metabolism. It … provides a good analytical framework for accounting of urban stocks and throughputs and helps understand critical processes as …

This paper aims to analyse urban mobility patterns and consequent impacts on energy and environment in India. We … using national and urban data sets. It explores the underlying relationship among three dependent variables-energy intensity … examined. Some policy recommendations are outlined to reduce urban transport energy use and greenhouse gases and provide …

Using the recent rounds of NSS data, this paper evaluates the performance and outreach of India's public distribution … system (PDS) in the rural areas. The results suggest a significant improvement in the performance of PDS in terms of its …

The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), which guarantees employment of every rural …

rural north India to understand the tradeoffs between time spent in school, time spent at work, time spent on home study and …

Should India's export promotion policies be targeted at accelerating export growth at the extensive (new trading … a comparative study of exports from India and China by analysing the role of extensive and intensive margins in the … narrower as India is clearly catching up with China. By contrast, India lags significantly behind China in terms of intensive …