Has the geography of deprivation changed in post-reform urban India? A Look into relative poverty and access to basic services

IF 0.7 Q3 GEOGRAPHY GeoScape Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI:10.2478/geosc-2023-0001
D. Biswas
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Abstract The literature on the concentration of urban poverty has considered two kinds of locations as the pockets of poverty: slums (vs. non-slums) and towns (vs. cities). Moving beyond these binaries in discussing spatial concentration of urban poverty, we have made an intersection of these two kinds of residential locations in the post-reform India using four rounds of data from the National Sample Survey. The proportion of relatively poor households was lower in city slum areas than in towns (both slum and non-slum households). Next, this paper tries to find out the level of basic services availability across these intersectional spatial categories and how public policies respond to existing poverty. Availability of basic services was higher in city slums than in town non-slum households. Across all these urban areas, the poor had a lower access to services than the non-poor, and the gap between them had increased over time. These findings also pose serious concerns on the geographical targeting of poverty alleviation programmes in India and on iniquitous resources allocations for providing basic amenities
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改革后的印度城市贫困的地理格局是否发生了变化?调查相对贫困和获得基本服务的情况
摘要关于城市贫困集中的文献考虑了两种贫困地区:贫民窟(与非贫民窟)和城镇(与城市)。在讨论城市贫困的空间集中时,我们超越了这些二元因素,利用国家抽样调查的四轮数据,对改革后印度的这两种居住地点进行了交叉分析。城市贫民窟相对贫困家庭的比例低于城镇(包括贫民窟和非贫民窟家庭)。接下来,本文试图了解这些跨部门空间类别的基本服务可用性水平,以及公共政策如何应对现有的贫困。城市贫民窟的基本服务提供率高于城镇非贫民窟家庭。在所有这些城市地区,穷人获得服务的机会低于非穷人,而且随着时间的推移,他们之间的差距越来越大。这些调查结果还对印度扶贫方案的地域定位以及为提供基本便利设施而进行的不公平资源分配提出了严重关切
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