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The efficiency of states and cities : is there a case for public land leasing and sales to finance India's cities?
Sridhar, Kala Seetharam - 2011
In this study an attempt has been made to assess the potential of land as a municipal financing tool in four Indian cities, to enable better public service delivery and attainment of the MDGs. The institutional arrangements for land use are fragmented in India's cities between the urban...
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Urban Governance and Development of Informality in China and India
Acolin, Arthur; Chattaraj, Shahana; Wachter, Susan M. - 2014
This chapter contrasts the process of urbanization in China and in India. It characterizes the differences in outcomes … levels of informality in urban real estate and labor markets. In China, incentives for local urban growth, combined with the … challenges faced by China and India in managing their continued urban growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014036976
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Subnational Taxation in Large Emerging Countries: BRIC Plus One
Bird, Richard M. - Institute of Municipal Finance and Governance (IMFG), … - 2012
, Russia, India, China, and Nigeria—BRIC plus one. As these case studies show, intergovernmental fiscal relations in any … focused on securing a bigger share of these revenues. Both China and Russia have made important changes in the direction of … which fiscal decentralization is to be accompanied by significant political decentralization. At present, in neither China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010555599
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Land use and land acquisition laws in India
Hoda, Anwarul - 2018
The enactment of the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Rehabilitation Act, 2013, has made sweeping changes in the land acquisition laws of India (LARR Act, 2013). By increasing the compensation for acquired land, mandating a social impact...
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Towards an Urban Land Resource Curse? A Fresh Perspective on a Long-Standing Issue
Zinnbauer, Dieter - 2015
Urban land governance is one of the central challenges not just for urban but also more broadly for global development in times of rapid urbanisation. This paper advances a fresh perspective to look at urban land by exploring to what extent it could be characterised as a resource curse problem....
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Faster, taller, better : transit improvements and land use policies
Chen, Liming; Hasan, Rana; Jiang, Yi; Parkhomenko, Andrii - 2023
We study the interaction between transit improvements and land use policies in the context of Bengaluru, one of India's largest cities. The city inaugurated a metro system in 2011. Yet it has low building heights even near metro stations, reflecting low floor-area ratio limits. We construct a...
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Reimagining India's urban future : a framework for securing high-growth, low-carbon, climate-resilient urban development in India
Tewari, Meenu; Aziz, Zeba; Cook, Mitchell; Goldar, Amrita; … - 2015
India is at the cusp of a major urban transition. In less than twenty years, India's urban population is expected to nearly double from 377 million today to over 600 million. Indian cities already contribute an estimated two-thirds of India's GDP, and this number is expected to rise to 75% by...
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Decentralisation in developing countries
Meenakshisundaram, S. S. - 1994 - 1. publ.
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Decentralization and local governance in developing countries : a comparative perspective
Bardhan, Pranab K. (ed.); Mookherjee, Dilip (contributor) - 2006
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