infrastructure with a view to identifying areas where India could improve its system of financing infrastructure in cities. Based on … very good services, important features of India's municipal finance system stand out. The spending per capita is …-income households often have unintended distributional effects. Again, evidence from urban India suggests that cost recovery is …

This paper examines the policy options for India as it seeks to improve living conditions of the poor on a large scale … of 20 to 30 percent of GDP, and cannot solve a problem on the scale of India's. Using two case studies, for Mumbai and …

This paper analyzes real estate market dynamics over the past decade in the city of Ahmedabad, India, with a view to … the feasibility of various approaches to achieving “slum free” cities, the goal of the Government of India's planned …

local government in urban developed areas of Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. The methodology uses information on plot sizes … expert committee of the Ministry of Urban Development of the Government of India …