Tag Search: “transport”
India on the move: The commuting worker
About 25 million workers in India commute daily for work, from rural to urban areas or vice versa, or have no fixed place of work. This column finds that rural households with at least one rural-to-ur...
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S. Chandrasekhar Ajay Sharma 
10 September, 2014
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Could railways have done more to aid economic development in India?
Indian Railways celebrated its 160th anniversary last month. This column argues that while railways played a large economic role in British India, it is likely they could have done more to aid economi...
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Dan Bogart Latika Chaudhary
- 29 May, 2013
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The Golden Quadrilateral: Highway to success
The Golden Quadrilateral, which connects four major cities in India, is the fifth-longest highway in the world. This column presents research that finds that by improving connectivity, the highway ha...
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Ejaz Ghani Arti Grover Goswami William Kerr
- 10 May, 2013
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