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- Devashish Dhar on The Great Indian Informal Sector | EXCERPT
Devashish Dhar on The Great Indian Informal Sector | EXCERPT
India’s Blind Spot explores our understanding of Indian cities and how we have reached this point of exasperation. The book illustrates that cities are critical to achieving India’s promised destiny and provides policy solutions and innovations to tackle complex issues in our cities. The book vividly explains that Indian cities will be at the frontier of driving key global political-economy trends in coming decades. This is a comprehensive study on the phenomenon of Indian urbanization, and what comes with it.
Read an excerpt from the book; on the great informal sector.
About the Book - India's Blind Spot
Indian policy has been characterised by a denial of urbanization. This has prevented us from meaningfully addressing the blizzard of policy issues that come with the phenomenon: from governance deficit to infrastructure shortfall, from effective management of land to lack…
About the Author - Devashish Dhar
Devashish Dhar is a former Public Policy Specialist at NITI Aayog. He is a Mason Fellow from the Harvard Kennedy School and Li Ka Shing Scholar from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore. He is also a…
To read more, order your copy of India's Blind Spot, by Devashish Dhar today!
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