Households or locations? cities, catchment areas and prosperity in India
This paper combines insights from poverty analysis and urban economics
Abstract
Policy makers in developing countries, including India, are increasingly sensitive to the links between spatial transformation and economic development. However, the empirical knowledge available on those links is most often insufficient to guide policy decisions. There is no shortage of case studies on urban agglomerations of different sorts, or of benchmarking exercises for states and districts, but more systematic evidence is scarce. To help address this gap, this paper combines insights from poverty analysis and urban economics, and develops a methodology to assess spatial performance with a high degree of granularity.
This research was partly funded by the UK Department for International Development as part of the Sustainable Urban Development Multi Donor Trust Fund.
Citation
Li, Yue; Rama, Martin. 2015. Households or Locations? : Cities, Catchment Areas and Prosperity in India. Policy Research Working Paper;No. 7473. World Bank, Washington, DC. © World Bank. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/23445 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.
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