Urban Governance and Finance in India

Richard Bird and Govinda Rao

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Abstract: Over 330 million people live in India’s cities; 35 cities have a population of over a million and three (Mumbai, Delhi, and Kolkata) of the 10 largest metropolises in the world are in India. India’s cities are large, economically important, and growing. However, neither urban infrastructure nor the level of urban public services is adequate for current needs, let alone to meet growing demands. This paper attempts to point the way towards some possible solutions by analysing urban governance and finance in India in the context of lessons drawn from fiscal federalism theory and experiences of governance institutions and financing systems both in India and around the world. [NIPFP WP No. 68].

Keywords: cities; India; urban public finance; urban governance; intergovernmental fiscal; relations; property tax; Economic Dynamism; finance; public services; housing; city; metropolitan areas; infrastructure finance; demands; economically (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-05
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