The paper examines the urbanization pattern with context of India. The paper deals with various demographic aspects of … urbanization. Also the paper focuses on characteristics and classes of cities, and poverty and slums. [Working Paper 141]. URL …

India's has been a unique path of economic development—internally decided in a democratic framework, constantly … uniquely Indian. India has achieved a respectable growth rate in the 2000s. It took a long while to reach this growth rate; and … it has not reduced poverty sufficiently. The benefits of growth have not been evenly distributed, but relatively …

The relation between growth, inequality and poverty is the central theme of the paper. While the fast economic growth … under the neo-liberal policy regime helps reduce poverty, it increases inequality in income distribution in a way that … retards the progress in poverty-reduction. The empirical validity of this proposition is examined by tracing trends in per …

This essay examines the trajectory of India?s fiscal policy with a focus on historical trends, fiscal discipline …

through industrialization, and especially through export oriented activities. But the key mechanisms seen as driving the …