With increasing population and expanding demand for urban infrastructure services, the capacities of local governments in many developing and newly industrialized countries are overburdened. Adequate infrastructure is not only necessary for increasing productivity but also raising the general...

In this paper, we make an attempt to understand what factors have caused some states to grow faster than others.

With increasing urbanization, rural-urban migration and associated problems have received a lot of attention in the literature and policy making. However, the question that remains unaddressed is whether India is over-urbanized in relation to the level of its development. If so, how can we...

Climate change is a complex phenomenon that has numerous and wide-ranging impacts on the environment and livelihoods. While a host of global trends in climate and impacts thereof have been elucidated, locally-relevant analyses are far fewer in number and remain poorer in quality. Wayanad is a...