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View: What ghost cities tell us about India's economyIn India, deindustrialisation & lack of manufacturing is majorly responsible for the ghost city phenomenon.- View: How urban primacy assumed importance in Sitharaman's Budget speechWater for every household by 2024, as promised by the FM in her Budget, is attainable only if water is conserved, reused and priced appropr...
- No safe drinking water, public transport: Why urban and not rural should be government's focusGiven the cities' contributions to overall macroeconomic growth due to their scale and agglomeration economies, India needs to showcase urb...
- Poke Me: The Budget ignores urban India, where two-third of India's GDP is generatedAs per the new Budget, the profit-linked income tax exemption for promoters of affordable housing with a 30 sq m limit will apply only to t...
- POKE ME: Despite Chennai facing a calamity, it's better prepared than most Indian citiesIn terms of its geography, the city of Chennai is quite disadvantaged, being close to sea level making it low-lying and prone to floods.
- Nobel Laureate Jean Tirole's work can help India's telecom policyTRAI need to familiarise itself with Tirole's work in setting termination charges, access charges, & defining regulatory guidelines for OTT...
- Narendra Modi’s slogan 'minimum government, maximum governance a serious goal?The US government has grown in size throughout the 20th century and yet its professionalism and growth record are not in dispute.
- Lok Sabha polls 2014: Understanding urban governance, holisticallyHalfway through the polls, we look at what the election manifestos of the Congress and BJP tell us on rural versus-urban development.
- JNNURM: Largest urban renewal programme comes with strings, but succeeding in placesJawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission, first major intervention by UPA govt in urban development, was used as an incentive fund t...
- Economic growth does impact quality of lifeAs we approach the national polls, political leaders broadcast what their governments have achieved to spur economic growth and create jobs.
- Lessons from Detroit for Indian citiesIndian cities should tap capital markets and other sources of revenue or become Detroit, declare operational dysfunction, or better, file b...
- SP's UP win: Single-party governments and pace of developmentWith a regional party like the SP having swept the UP polls, the question arises as to what are the factors that determine a political part...
- Economic geography mattersThe ranking of states alters dramatically when viewed by GDP density, or GDP per sq km, and this measure of a state’s revenue potential is ...
- CWG 2010: Delhi gets a facelift for sureTwenty-six new flyovers, 18 railway over-bridges, wider roads, swanky airport terminals… All isn’t well still, but Delhi gets a facelift fo...
- A tech substitute for city travelTelecommuting must become realised practice for companies to optimise use of employee time and to lower the burden on city infrastructure.
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