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From 1975 to 2015, Indian cities grew at a rapid rate, adding roughly 300 million new residents. The aim of this paper is to understand how the urban form of Indian cities has evolved over this time and explain the variation in growth patterns across the country. We focus on two questions....
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It is theoretically ambiguous whether growth of cities matters more to the rural poor than growth of towns. This paper empirically examines whether growth of India's secondary towns or big cities mattered more to recent rural poverty reduction, noting that data deficiencies have made this a...
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Urbanization has both benefits and costs. In a market economy, the trade-off between benefits and costs determines the … level, speed, and pace of urbanization. This paper summarizes research findings on how urbanization enhances productivity … urbanization and growth in the Indian context by examining microeconomic evidence on how enterprises and consumers share production …
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