"Urbanization and Decentralization: The changing urban-rural linkages and opportunities of decentralization of services … urbanization and decentralization. Ever stronger linkages between urban and rural areas represent a challenge for sustainable … reviews the evidence of synergies and pitfalls between urbanization and decentralization with concepts of economic geography …

, and is known as the Town Planning Scheme (TP Scheme) in India. This is the concept of replotting or reshaping a parcel of … land to develop it with amenities and services, such as roads, parks, social infrastructure, and utilities. In India, the … India could be to scale up the use of the TP Scheme by gathering skilled resources and drafting a competent financial …

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 … and economic growth in both rural and urban sectors, taking the case of India. We study the relationship between …

People's Republic of China and India further highlighting the critical role of cereals trade in population urbanization in …Developing countries have seen a rapid rise in population urbanization in the past decades. At the same time, they have … participated actively in the process of globalization. However, possible interlinks between population urbanization and trade …