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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
