Changing Paradigms of Urbanization: Insights from India and the Global South by Om Prakash Mathur

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Between 2022 and 2047, India will transit from a lower-middle to an upper-middle urban economy. What strategic policy shifts will be necessary to ensure that this transition plays out productively is a major question that the author addresses in the opening paper.
This book—a collection of 20 papers authored by Om Prakash Mathur, a leading urban scholar, serves as a repository of insights into global and Indian urbanisation. It explores how it unfolds and establishes linkages with macroeconomic parameters.
Supported by rigorous research and analytical frameworks, the book is an indispensable resource for academics, policy-makers and researchers.
Excerpt from the Foreword
This volume featuring Om Mathur’s urban research journey of more than 40 years is an invaluable resource for everyone interested in Indian urban development. I am sure that it will feature in all reading lists in courses dealing with urban development in India and abroad.
—Rakesh Mohan
President Emeritus, Centre for Social and Economic Progress; Member, Economic Advisory Council to Prime Minister; Former Secretary, Ministry of Finance
Om Prakash Mathur is Visiting Senior Fellow at the CSEP Research Foundation and Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Global Cities Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto. He has served as Director (1984-1992) and Distinguished Professor (2011-14) at the National Institute of Urban Affairs; IDFC Chair Professor, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (1992-2011); and Chair, Urban Studies, Institute of Social Sciences (2014-2020).
Mr Mathur has worked with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for about a decade. Om Prakash Mathur has a Master’s in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics and has attended graduate courses at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, Cambridge.

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