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    15 : Redefining India: The Recent Policy Changes and the Second National Commission on Urbanisation

    Indu Rayadurgam, Research Associate at the ISAS

    3 August 2007

    In June 2007, a report on the opportunities and problems posed by urbanisation in the developing world was brought out as a report in The State of the World Population Report 2007 by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). The same month witnessed a conference on "National Alliance to End Homelessness" in the United States which was held in Washington D.C. Both the UNFPA report and the conference revealed the increasing social and economic challenges in the developed and developing world.