Costs and Benefits of Urbanization: The Indian Case

Kala Sridhar

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Abstract: Urbanization has both benefits and costs. In a market economy, the trade-off between benefits and costs determines the level, speed, and place of urbanization. This paper summarizes research findings on how urbanization enhances productivity and economic growth in both rural and urban sectors, taking the case of India. [ADBI working paper No. 607].

Keywords: Urbanization; costs; benefits; Indian; urban sectors; productivity; economic growth; rural; urban sectors; India; economy; trade-off; Industrialization; economies; GDP; poor; employment; labor force; labour (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-10
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