The city and the world

The economic reforms of the 1990s triggered vastly new opportunities and new challenges like the need to be globally competitive. These opportunities and challenges find concentrated expression in India’s leading metropolises that are agglomerations of economic activity. These cities boomed with the opening up of the economy to global flows of trade, capital and labour. New Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Ahmedabad, Pune, Hyderabad and Kolkata recently figured among the top 120 global cities for their competitiveness, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit.

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