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Making Indian Cities Slum-Free:Vision and Operationalisation

by Amitabh Khundu Economic and Political Weekly, April 27, 2013 The plan of making urban India slum-free faced serious diffi culties in the Eleventh Plan period and it looks like these will persist in the Twelfth Plan period as well. This article points out that the schemes in operation lack a reliable framework for identifying [...]

Understanding the Mismatch among the Three Definitions of Poverty:New Micro-Level Evidence from Delhi Slums

by Raphaelle Bisiaux Economic and Political Weekly, January 5, 2013 The definition of poverty has drawn closer to multidimensionality within various theoretical frameworks. However, even though basic individual needs are intrinsic to human nature regardless of historical and social contexts, the issue of defining poverty in a universal manner may be impeded by the network [...]

New Policy Paradigms and Actual Practices in Slum Housing:The Case of Housing Projects in Bengaluru

by Lalitha Kamath Economic and Political Weekly, December1, 2012 Recent reform programmes for achieving “slum-free” cities, like the Basic Services for the Urban Poor, signal a new integrated approach to slum redevelopment that combines housing, infrastructure and land titling. The new policy paradigm speaks the language of inclusiveness and efficiency, but its outcome has been [...]

The Spatial Reproduction of Urban Poverty Labour and Livelihoods in a Slum Resettlement Colony

by Karen Coelho; T Venkat and R Chandrika Economic and Political Weekly, December 1, 2012 How do mass slum resettlement programmes in expanding megacities contribute to the reproduction of urban poverty? Chennai’s premier resettlement colony, Kannagi Nagar, housing slum-dwellers evicted from the city since 2000 has integrated itself into the industrial, commercial and software economies [...]

Ahmedabad : more but different government for “slum free” and livable cities

by patricia Clarke Annez; Alain Bertaud; Bijal Bhatt…et al. WB Policy Research Paper no.WPS 6267, November ,2012 This paper analyzes real estate market dynamics over the past decade in the city of Ahmedabad, India, with a view to improving the living conditions of the large population living in slums. The paper combines census data, the [...]

Toiling Children in India: The Gender Dimension

Rajnish Kumar, Arup Mitra and Mayumi Murayama IDE-JETRO Discussion Paper No. 352.  April 2012 Child labour in several low income households is rather pursued for gaining experience and at times for meagre incomes, which are possibly spent on household food expenditure. Though the contribution made by the child labour to the overall wellbeing does not [...]

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