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in the form of ‘demographic bonus ’. Urbanization is also expected to continue. Thus it seems that India⠅
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capacities of large cities to respond to the growing water demands, induced by population growth and urbanization. The future …
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This paper will hopefully provide an important methodological tool for all researchers who may be attempting to analyze and explain the growth of the service sector and its share in the Indian GDP over the past decades. [ICRIER WP no. 235].
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Although the high rate of urbanization and the high incidence of rural poverty are two distinct features of many … mechanisms through which urbanization may alleviate rural poverty, disentangling "first round" effects, due to migration of rural … test our theoretical predictions on a sample of Indian districts in the period 1981-1999, and find that urbanization has a …
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Unlike migration, scant attention has been paid to the phenomenon of commuting by workers in developing countries. This paper fills this gap by using a nationally representative data set from India to analyze factors that affect the decision of workers to commute across rural and urban areas...
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Considering the present trends of urbanization and motorization in India, there is an urgent need for integration … urbanization process in India will become unsustainable. It is argued that High Speed Rail (HSR) can play a role in achieving this …
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district characteristics, particularly urbanization and the distance from a major urban agglomeration. State-level effects have …
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Planned efforts to relocate human populations often entail protracted struggles over the terms on which local populations may be compensated for the loss of land, assets and livelihoods. In many instances, compensation has been established on the basis of historical market value, which in effect...
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Given the indisputable fact that urbanization has long become the cornerstone of industrialization and development … efforts in India, this paper specifically takes up the issues of urbanization as related to energy usage and sustainability … issues. We find that urbanization has followed a model that is neither energy-efficient, nor, for the very same reasons …
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India is the second-largest nation in the world, with a population of 1.2 billion. As China rapidly urbanizes, India has become the last of the large nations where village life and traditional farm production survive. While weakened by neoliberal reforms, many government policies continue to...
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