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What Causes Agglomeration? – Policy or Infrastructure – A Study of Indian Manufacturing Industry
Kathuria, Vinish - eSocialSciences - 2011
This paper investigates whether industrial dispersal policy is more potent or the natural and agglomeration cost … advantages are important in influencing locational choice of a firm. To carry out the analysis, an agglomeration measure given by … Ellison and Glaeser is computed for 66 manufacturing industries in 21 major States of India for the year 1997-98. URL …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009319322
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Productivity Dynamics in the Indian Pharmaceutical Industry: Evidences from Plant-level Panel Data
Kamiike, Atsuko; Sato, Takahiro; Aggarwal, Aradhna - eSocialSciences - 2011
across five regions: north, north-west, west, south and the rest of India, during the period from 2000-01 to 2005-06, using … age of agglomeration of the pharmaceutical industry. The empirical analysis is based on the decomposition methodology of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009321497
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Governance by Denial: Forced Eviction and Demolition of Homes in Ejipura/ Koramangala, Bangalore: Report of a Fact-Finding Mission
Karnataka, PUCL - eSocialSciences - 2013
The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is responsible for providing infrastructure and services in the metropolitan area. From January 18 to 21, 2013, it bulldozed 1,512 homes (42 blocks) and evicted more than 5,000 people living in tin sheds in the economically weaker section (EWS)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945498
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Trade Policy and Urban-Rural Inequalities In LDCS: A Simulation Experiment With A New Economic Geography Model
Gelan, Ayele - eSocialSciences - 2007
agglomeration of production in the context of a small open developing economy. It constructs a general equilibrium model with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487605
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National Urban Transport Policy
eSocialSciences; Ministry of Urban Development GOI - 2011
The objective of this policy is to ensure safe, affordable, quick, comfortable, reliable and sustainable access for the growing number of city residents to jobs, education, recreation and such other needs within our cities. URL:[http://urbanindia.nic.in/policies/TransportPolicy.pdf].
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009370983
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Water, City and Urban Planning: Assessing the Role of Groundwater in Urban Development and Planning in Delhi
Rohilla, Suresh Kumar - eSocialSciences - 2012
The paper examines the stages and patterns of urban evolution in the Delhi metropolis and its peri-urban areas and links the role of groundwater in urban development from the past to the present. With the help of a case study -‘Dwarka sub-city’ within the immediate urban extensions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133141
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Urban Issues, Reforms and Way Forward in India
Vaidya, Chetan - eSocialSciences - 2009
The Government has launched a reform-linked urban investment programme, JNNURM. The paper has analysed urban trends, projected population, service delivery, institutional arrangements, municipal finances, innovative financing, and suggests that India’s future strategy should focus on: (a)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543127
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Business Roundtable on Corporate Leadership for Sustainable Urbanization: Discussion Paper
Sinclair, Rob - eSocialSciences - 2006
The reality of urban development is that commerce and industry are two of its core drivers. Without the full participation of the private sector in efforts towards sustainable human settlements, the present and looming crisis of rapid urbanization, particularly in the South, will not be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487748
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Mumbai/Shanghai: Prospects/Problems--Imitating Global, Failing Local
Sharma, Kalpana - eSocialSciences - 2006
Do we aspire to be a ‘global’ city like Shanghai, with all the spit and polish to attract foreign investors by the drove? Or can we aim to be a city with a sustainable plan for its development – one that marries ecology with economy? Is it more important for us to forge links...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487795
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UCLG Policy Paper on Local Finance
eSocialSciences; UCLG Committee on Local Finance and … - 2009
The Policy Paper seeks to give voice to a local government vision on financing and stems from a shared understanding of the challenges we face. The Policy Paper contains 25 concrete recom- mendations for increasing local government access to infrastructure financing, particular- ly in developing...
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