Global State of National Urban Policy 2024
<p>With global population increasingly concentrating in urban areas, cities are driving national economic growth, while also grappling with challenges such as inequalities, affordable housing shortages,
Urbanisation
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Every drop kills
Waterborne diseases are the biggest threat to children
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Tropic of cancer
Childhood cancer rates in India are increasing by six per cent every year
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Junk life
Fast food and slow death
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Brain dead
When pencils and paints lead to lower IQ
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Children of a lesser god
Children don t have a voice. They can t lobby or fight governments. The initiative lies with India s medical establishment and the civil society
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Soft Target
Children are bearing the brunt of environmental degradation. Across the class divide, they are eating, drinking and breathing poison. And their special bodies make them most vulnerable to a host of diseases
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Bloated cities
The world's cities are burgeoning. Fifty years ago, New York was the only metropolis with a population of more than10 million. Today there are 19 such cities. At present, some three billion people
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Cities in a Globalizing World: Global report on Human Settlement 2001
GLOBALISATION is no longer considered profanation. Today urbanisation and globalisation have to work in tandem, bringing in information, and consequently, opportunity. This study was triggered
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Programme plugged
Urban rainwater harvesting will require a strategy that has different components. We have to recognise that just passing a law is not enough
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Owning the road
Cities without cars, pollution and traffic. A movement is spreading across Europe to drive cars out. People are beginning to say no to cars