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Finances, Land Sales and Public Service Delivery: A Pilot Study of Selected Large Cities in India

The year 2007 was important for urbanization since the number of urban inhabitants surpassed rural dwellers as a percentage of the total world population. The world population is expected to become two-third urban by 2025. While the urbanization phenomenon is widely accepted as being an inevitable by-product of development, there are many undesirable outcomes that have resulted. With increasing population and increasing demand for urban infrastructure services, the capacities of local governments in many developing and newly industrialized countries are over-burdened.

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In pursuit of realizing its vision to improve the quality of public governance in India by creating vibrant, informed and proactive citizen engagements with the state and its institutions, Public Affairs Centre's mission encompasses a multi pronged approach synthesizing a range of strategies and interventions.

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South beats North on Governance

A recent World Bank study has ranked India below its neighbours Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh in terms of Ease of Doing Business. This result can in significant part be attributed to the inefficiency of India's judicial systems. Drawing upon findings from PAC's recent study researching the diverging rates of development in India's Northern and Southern States, it is argued that political stability, law and order and judicial efficacy are key components to a governance environment conducive to both progressive public policymaking and investment.