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Future of Urban India

As the number of people living in cities continues to increase, India needs to be proactive in solving the problems of Urbanization according to LiveMint.com article titled “Future for Urban India”.

Entrepreneurship in Slum

In the NY Times blog titled “Slumdog Entrepreneurs”, Economics Professor at Harvard School Ed Glaeser, writes about his observation that 43 percent of urban Indians who worked were self-employed (vs 11% in the US). High self employment in Urban India reflects both good things about the country, like energy and intelligence, and bad things, like a maze of regulations that make it difficult to build large companies that follow the rules.