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Urbanisation in Indian Cities - Challenges and Opportunities

Geoff Riley

15th September 2012

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Many of India's biggest urban areas have witnessed massive migration in recent years - the inflow of people stretches a city's resources, making the basics, like housing, electricity, sanitation and education a luxury inaccessible to many. This selection of news videos looks at Indian urbanisation and the economic, social and environmental challenges this process poses

India's capital struggles with worker influx


Migrants in Mumbai

Investment to get Mumbai moving

Cities as engines of economic growth (World Bank documentary)



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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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