Other India Publications

Toolkit for Enabling Gender Responsive Urban Mobility and Public Spaces

This toolkit is intended as a guide towards introducing gender equality and women’s empowerment principles into designing urban mobility systems and public spaces, so that they mitigate rather than reinforce gender inequalities.

Making public transport and urban spaces safer and inclusive for women

A policy brief based on the ‘Toolkit for Enabling Gender Responsive Urban Mobility and Public Spaces’. This toolkit is intended to bridge the knowledge gaps between policy making and program implementation for gender responsive urban mobility and public space in India.

Gender-Based Discounts on Taxes Related to Property: Role in Encouraging Female Ownership — A Case Study of Indian States and Cities

This paper investigates linkages between genderbased discounts on taxes related to property (stamp duties and property taxes), female property ownership, and revenues from taxes related to property. Factors — such as concessions in loan terms offered to females buying properties in their own names or through joint ownership, security of inheritance, and equal property ownership rights for females — can positively contribute to encouraging female property ownership.

Does Market Integration Increase Rural Land Inequality ? Evidence from India (English)

Investments in transport infrastructure lower trade costs and lead to integration of villages with urban markets. Does spatial market integration increase land inequality in rural areas? Using highquality household survey data (the India Human Development Survey) on land ownership in rural districts of India, this paper provides the first evidence on the effects of market integration on land ownership inequality.

Combining Remote Sensing and Cell Phone Users’ Mobility Data to Monitor the Impact of Transportation on NO2 Concentrations in India

This paper studies the impact of ground-level mobility on air pollution in India through a combination of remotely sensed tropospheric nitrogen dioxide measures and data from mobile phone users’ locations. The findings show that a 1 percent increase in mobility increases nitrogen dioxide concentrations by more than 2 percent, suggesting that traffic congestion plays a significant role in air pollution.