Notes on Urban Prosperity Any study on urbanisation and prosperity takes a strategic direction to approach its increasing role...
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Urbanisation and Urban Dynamics Cities have come to acquire a very central position in our understanding of the nature...
Bibek Debroy, Amit Kapoor & Aditya Sinha In his seminal book “Street Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of the Individual in...
The Smart City Mission, as envisaged by the Hon’ble Prime Minister, is embedded in the idea of promoting cities...
Looking at urbanisation as merely a process of the population shift from rural to urban areas makes us lose...
Amit Kapoor & Bibek Debroy As the world is becoming more urban than ever, it is crucial to place...
Urbanisation without chaos: How to plan and govern our cities
amitkapoor, , Articles, Business Standard, Urbanisation, 0There are multiple lenses through which one can try to understand urbanisation in order to leverage its advantages for...
India@100: What’s ahead for urbanisation?
amitkapoor, , Articles, Business Standard, Urbanisation, 0India@100: What’s ahead for urbanisation? With India surpassing the United Kingdom to become the fifth-largest economy, the world is...
The waves of urbanisation have been uneven around the world and are intrinsically tied to the level of development...
The Curious Case of Census Towns: The Case for Integrated Development of Rural and Urban Areas
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, Urbanisation, 0Bibek Debroy, Amit Kapoor & Aditya Sinha Literature on service delivery suggests that a state is incapable of delivering...
Amit Kapoor and Bibek Debroy The process of urbanisation stipulates a need to expand as the number of people...
Bibek Debroy, Aditya Sinha & Amit Kapoor Throughout the 20th century, modern states have pursued what political scientist, James Scott,...
The variations in determining what can be classified as cities are as dynamic as cities themselves It is fairly...
Increasing the pace of India’s urbanisation
amitkapoor, , Articles, Business Standard, Urbanisation, 0Cities have always captured the poetic imagination in how they shape culture and give impetus to the realisation of...
The World Bank estimates that about 4.2 billion people, or 55% of the world’s population, live in the cities....
Amit Kapoor and Bibek Debroy With the World Bank projecting that every seven of 10 people will be living...