Skip to main content

Main navigation

  • Topics
    • Themes

      • Firms
      • Cities
      • Energy
      • State
    • Current issues

      • Climate change
      • Gender equality
      • AI and data
    • Initiatives

      • Cities that Work
      • State Fragility initiative
      • Tax for Growth
      • SGB Evidence Fund
      • Agri-SME Evidence Fund
      • Climate and Growth Initiative
  • About
    • Impact
    • Governance
    • People
    • Annual report
    • Our funders
    • News
    • Careers
    • Contact us
    • Policies
  • Local ecosystems
    • Resident PhD fellowship
    • Mentorship programme
    • Local researcher impact
    • Visiting lecturers
    • Our partners
  • Where we work
    • Bangladesh
    • Ethiopia
    • Ghana
    • Jordan
    • Mozambique
    • Pakistan
    • Rwanda
    • Sierra Leone
    • Tanzania
    • Uganda
    • Yemen
    • Zambia
    • India
  • For researchers
    • Funding
    • Data sets
    • Researchers directory
    • Funded project documents
  • Publications
    • Growth briefs
    • Evidence and strategy papers
    • Publications glossary
  • Blog
  • Events
    • BREAD-IGC virtual PhD course
    • Firms, Trade, and Development Conference
    • LSE Environment Week
  1. / IGC
  2. / Publications

Services Delivery and Centralization in Urban Slums (Policy Brief)

Policy brief 1 Mar 2012 Cities

Project

  • Urban Governance and Poverty Reduction in Delhi's Slums

Authors

Abhijit Banerjee

Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Rohini Pande

Henry J. Heinz II Professor of Economics and Director of the Economic Growth Center, Yale University

Michael Walton

Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard University
  • Banerjee-Et-Al-2012-Policy-Brief1.pdf Download

    PDF document • 316.85 KB

Share

More from Urban Governance and Poverty Reduction in Delhi's Slums 

Delhi’s Slum-Dwellers: Deprivation, Preferences and Political Engagement among the Urban Poor (Working Paper)

Abhijit Banerjee, Rohini Pande, Michael Walton
Working paper

More from IGC

Labour supply responses of left-behind members in migrant households: A gender-based analysis in Ethiopia

Hailu Elias, Bekele Wegi Feyisa, Lamessa Tariku Abdisa
Policy brief

10th Urbanization and Development Conference

30–31 March 2026 World Bank, George Washington University and Johns Hopkins University (Washington, DC)
Past Event

A mayor’s plan for economic growth? Building an enabling city

Victoria Delbridge, Tim Dobermann, Muskan Jain, Juliana Oliveira-Cunha
Blog

Labour supply responses of left-behind members in migrant households: A gender-based analysis in Ethiopia

Hailu Elias, Bekele Wegi Feyisa, Lamessa Tariku Abdisa
Working paper
Themes
Cities
Countries
India - Central

Footer main

All Projects All Multimedia All In focus

Footer secondary

VoxDev ↗ Ideas for India ↗

Stay up to date

Subscribe to our newsletter

and follow

International Growth Centre

London School of Economics and Political Science Sir Arthur Lewis Building (SAL), Houghton Street London WC2A 2AE, United Kingdom

[email protected]

Funded by

UK Aid Logo
© IGC 2026 Design and development by Soapbox
  • Cookies
  • Privacy Policy