CHF International, an international development firm based in the United States, received a $1 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.  The grant will support CHF’s urban development work, and more specifically, create a virtual employment marketplace for day labourers who live in slums.  The EarthTimes explains the value of this virtual tool, [...]

A few headlines regarding the World Bank recently caught my eye, mostly because they are not the usual development headlines I am used to reading.  In the Business Standard‘s “Migration to urban areas is good, says World Bank,” and domain-b.com‘s “India’s rural job schemes are barriers to development: World Bank news,” the focus is on [...]

The comments from a previous post questioning the value of urbanization discussed the need of developing rural industries and services. According to iGovernment, the government has made a real step toward this with the Ministry of Panchayati Raj and the Khadi and Village Industry Commission (KVIC), a non-profit, working together to promote the Rural Business [...]

Atanu Dey’s article and analysis on the Urbanization and Development of India lends itself to interesting opinions and conclusions on an important topic that encompasses many cross-cutting issues. Dey follows the model of linear development in his conclusion: Therefore the rural people have to be urbanized for India’s development and growth. Every economy has followed [...]

There is no doubt that the issues of migration and urbanization within India are wrought with controversy.  In the case of rural-urban migration, which is overwhelmingly the case, the impact on the social, economic, and psychological structure of villages and cities, both on a macro and micro level, is significant.  In my experience within the Adivasi, [...]