Given that India’s urban areas contribute to nearly two-thirds of its gross domestic product, even though they account … for only 31% of the country’s population, they have been rightly called the engines of India’s growth. In this paper, I … competitiveness of India’s cities. This paper uses standard Census of India data at the level of the city, to compute location …

India. It has also unfavorably affected the realization of the full potential of the urban sector's contribution to national … gross domestic product in India. From this perspective, by considering the population in Class I cities (cities with more … size of urban populations of large cities in India. Secondly, it assesses the status of class I cities in India as per the …

Introduction: Foreign aid and development politics in India -- Part I. Learning development, 1947-1955: Debating … development and discovering India -- Inventing development aid -- Part II. The heyday of the economic cold war, 1955-1966: The …-1974: Bets, bargains, and the price for American aid -- Soviet aid from inspiration to armory -- India's double crisis and the …

Improvements in the land route between India and Pakistan can help lower transaction costs which can play in important … role in realizing the trade potential between the two countries. Connecting India and Pakistan by the land route offers … connecting India and Pakistan to Central Asia and East Asia, this paper makes an attempt to examine trade between India and …

Issues of housing in India are synonymous with ignorance of housing in active government involvement at the policy and … 2011. Though India has a long history of establishing policies, programs, and institutions to cater to housing, without … housing shortage in India, there is desperate need to prepare a framework for housing by (i) including housing as a …

India's financial inclusion agenda has witnessed a paradigm shift over the last decade, away from an emphasis on credit … products, such as insurance). This paper describes the structure of banking and microfinance institutions in India relevant to …