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    Better Cities, Better Growth: India's Urban Opportunity

    Economy, The New Climate; Cities, WRI Ross Centre for Sustainable; Transitions, Coalition for Urban; Hill, University of North Carolina at Chapel; Bank, The World | November 2016
    Abstract
    India is on the cusp of an urban transition. The country’s urban population reached 420 million or 33% of its total population in 2015. It is expected to almost double to 800 million by 2050,2 when one in every two Indians is expected to reside in its towns and cities. By 2031, 75% of India’s national income is expected to come from cities, an increase on the current 66%, and the majority of new jobs will be created in urban areas.3 Policy engagement on meeting India’s urban challenge is also at a turning point. The Government of India has launched an array of initiatives to tackle issues of urban growth and liveability, including “100 Smart Cities”, “Swachh Bharat Abhiyan” (Clean India Mission), “500 Cities Fund”, “Urban Infrastructure”, “Heritage Cities”, and “Make in India” programmes. This urban focus is timely and appropriate, for several reasons.
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    Economy, The New Climate; Cities, WRI Ross Centre for Sustainable; Transitions, Coalition for Urban; Hill, University of North Carolina at Chapel; Bank, The World. 2016. Better Cities, Better Growth: India's Urban Opportunity. © Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/9096.
    Keywords
    Urbanization
    Urban Services
    Urban Projects
    Urban Problems
    Urban Poverty
    Urban Policy
    Urban Planning
    Urban Infrastructure
    Urban Health
    Urban Government
    Urban Economic Development
    Urban Development Finance
    Urban Development
    Urban Conditions
    Urban Communities
    Urban Population
    Environmental Sustainability
    Urban Plans
    Urbanism
    Urban agriculture
    Economic Development
    Rural Urban Migration
    Cities
    Institutional Framework
    Business Management
    Corporate Restructuring
    Emission Control
    Pollution Control
    Urban traffic
    Urban Plans
    Local government
    Urban renewal
    Urban housing
    Urban sociology
    Transit systems
    Rapid transit
    Public transit
    Mass transit
    Personnel management
    Corporate reorganizations
    Intergovernmental cooperation
    Carbon dioxide mitigation
    Ecological risk assessment
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