Inequality in Urban India
At a time when the idea of a ‘smart city’ dominates policy discourse, India is faced with a very real urbanisation challenge. The socio-spatial hierarchy in the country’s ever-expanding cities is growing deeper, even as inequalities of income, access and opportunities remain un-arrested. Marginalisation and ghettoisation remains appallingly commonplace in Indian cities, particularly in Tier I cities where rural-to-urban distress migrants end up in large numbers. Inequality in urban India is rising much faster than in rural India. The consequences are large. According to a 2014 research paper presented at a Population Association of America conference, “…poor health and inequality ....
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Economic Development
- 1 The North-South Divide: Key Issues
- 2 The North-South Economic Divide
- 3 Fifteenth Finance Commission
- 4 Implications of Special Levies
- 5 The Goods & Service Tax
- 6 Recent Trends in Central Transfer to States
- 7 The Finance Commission
- 8 Centre-State Financial Relations: Indian Context
- 9 Exclusion in Panchayat Elections
- 10 Does Reservation Policy Need Reform
- 11 Are Tribals Really Benefitting from the Forest Rights Act
- 12 Why Transgenders are Considered as Vulnerable
- 13 Economic Opportunities for Differently-abled
- 14 Climate Refugee & International Convention
- 15 Climate Refugees in The Indian Subcontinent
- 16 Urban Poverty in India
- 17 Urban Development & Transformation
- 18 Inclusive Urbanisation and SDGs
