# Prof. Paul Romer and research scholar Alain Bertaud on urban growth in India

1 Faculty News April 15, 2014 ![NextCity logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_045906.jpg?itok=CYEd5hRF)>

Excerpt from [Next City](http://nextcity.org/daily/entry/what-narendra-modi-indias-likely-next-prime-minister-will-mean-for-cities) -- “'There’s this clear, growing demand for the efficient provision of government services, and Congress I think has tried to compete along the lines of \[government\] transfers,' economist [Paul Romer](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/paul-romer), who has studied India with the NYU Stern Urbanization Project, told Next City. 'They wouldn’t say it this way, but I think their basic strategy has been to try to impede the movement from rural areas to urban areas.'”

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