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Haryana: Work on 18-km expressway to begin, 4-km stretch remain disputed
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Friday, July 30, 2010 |
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Haryana will work on 18 kilometer expressway. The stretch of 4 kilometers remain disputed. NPR is the widest expressway in India. Haryana Government released hundreds of residential and commercial projects to private developers.Developers have been pressuring the Haryana government to start the projects, since the issuing of licences to private developers, reports The Indian Express. |
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The Poor Man's Capitalist
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Tuesday, July 06, 2010 |
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Most of the wealth creation in the western world is trickle-up. It is true in the case of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. It is true in the case of pioneers in the US. In poor countries, the system doesn't give you a level playing field to move up the ladder. The poor men in India and other developing countries live outside the law and have no valid property rights, says Hernando de Soto to Shekhar Gupta on Walk The Talk in NDTV. |
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Prosperity is about the ability to combine
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Thursday, July 01, 2010 |
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The Peruvian Economist hernando De Soto wants the poor to have choices and private property rights. He points out that people are buying and selling land in the Dharavi slums without even titles.We should find out about the poor and how they relate to the Indian Law, says he to Sreelatha Menon of Business Standard. |
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UPA to try 'de Soto model' for slum development
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Tuesday, June 29, 2010 |
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The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh gifted two books of Hernando de Soto to Kumari Selja, the Union minister for housing and urban poverty alleviation. Hernando de Soto's works draws light on issues like urban poverty and slum development. The Government, it is said, will try to meld Capitalistic principles with socialistic objectives, writes Saubhadro Chatterji in Business Standard. |
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Property rights for slum dwellers proposed: Urban Dev Min
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Thursday, July 02, 2009 |
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Aiming at empowering the urban poor with legal rights, UPA government is initiating steps to provide property entitlements to them. We are proposing that master plans have to include reservation of land to build houses for the poor and also for their economic activities like street vending, she said. Once the slum dwellers get the ownership right through legal process, they can leverage it for their further betterment, reports Indian Express. |
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Government proposes property rights for slum dwellers
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Wednesday, July 01, 2009 |
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To empower the urban poor, the United Progressive Alliance government is initiating steps to give them property entitlements. As per the plan, the property rights model will draw from best practices within and outside the country. The proposal will be circulated to states to enable them to establish their own regulatory frameworks suiting local conditions. The model legal framework for property rights proposes to include reservation of land for housing and informal-sector activities by the urban poor in city and zonal plans, reports DNA. |
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Govt Agenda for urban housing and poverty alleviation
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Wednesday, July 01, 2009 |
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Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Kumari Selja unveiled agenda for the first 100 days of Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation. Minister of state for Tourism, Shri Sultan Ahmed, and senior officials of the Ministry were also present on the occasion. Following are the initiatives announced by the Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Kumari Selja, reports the Press Information Bureau. |
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Plotting for people: A path for slum free India
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Thursday, June 18, 2009 |
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Hernando de Soto, the distinguished Peruvian economist, asks why capitalism is a success in the West and a failure everywhere else. He concludes because of the almost inadvertent creation of property rights, properly documented and enforceable. The greater the number of people who have marketable, enforceable property rights, the bigger will be the pool of potential business talent and enterprise. Perhaps it is the poor who can make our country rich and help themselves in the process, writes Shirish Patel in the Indian Express. |
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Small-towns hold the key to slum free India
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Thursday, June 11, 2009 |
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A sustained drive against illegal encroachments and the rigorous enforcement of property rights, although necessary, will not be sufficient to solve the problem of rehabilitating slum dwellers. We need to understand why ever-growing millions of people move to these slums and are willing to live in such wretched conditions. Indeed, we need to understand the very process that drives urbanisation, writes Sanjeev Sanyal in the Business Standard. |
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