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  USI: Urban Sustainability Index

  Cities will be central to India’s economic future. The country’s urban population grew from 290 million in 2001 to 340 million in 2008, an increase of 17.24% over an eight year period, with this number [...]

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  Recycling and e-waste industry in India

  Recycling as waste management practice in India is pushed by statutory compulsions, ecological requirements and economic considerations. The recycling activity is witnessing a shift and moving from largely unorganized approach to a more organized large [...]

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  Web GIS System for IFMR – KGFS

  The Development Metrics team is creating a website for mapping KGFS microfinance villages, hubs, branches and customers. The team will be using the existing database of customers and modifying it to link with geographical locations [...]

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  Information Access and Privacy

  Who has access to information and under what circumstances Some research questions: How to structure participation through privacy policies embedded in the architecture of technology to more strategically exchange information. Aligning proximities between social information [...]

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  Centrally Sponsored Schemes

  CDF’s research on Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSS), special purpose fiscal transfers from the central government to states and local governments, is organized around three main pillars: CSS process analysis, evaluation of CSS impact, and the [...]

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