Deprivation and incidence of urban public services: A tale of three cities Export

@article{Gangopadhyay:2001lr, abstract = {We approach the problem of deprivation and incidence of urban public services by quantifying the extent of deprivation of different income groups in relation to both desired and minimum levels. Three types of deprivation are clearly established. First, deprivation in both Bombay and Calcutta is higher than that of Delhi. Second, there is a serious concern for primary health and education because it is established that the lack of these local services is the major source of deprivation among urban settlers. Finally, we report how well different income classes are served in these cities: the rich are worst-off in Calcutta and best-off in Bombay. Middle income and poor citizens are best-off and worst-off in Delhi and Bombay, respectively.}, author = {Gangopadhyay, Partha and Nath, Shyam}, citeulike-article-id = {1605703}, journal = {RURDS}, keywords = {cities, goods, infrastructure, public}, local-url = {file://localhost/Users/darbyjack/Documents/Papers/Gangopadhyay2001.pdf}, number = {3}, posted-at = {2007-08-29 17:22:19}, priority = {2}, title = {Deprivation and incidence of urban public services: A tale of three cities}, volume = {12}, year = {2001} }

TY - JOUR ID - Gangopadhyay:2001lr L3 - citeulike-article-id:1605703 N2 - We approach the problem of deprivation and incidence of urban public services by quantifying the extent of deprivation of different income groups in relation to both desired and minimum levels. Three types of deprivation are clearly established. First, deprivation in both Bombay and Calcutta is higher than that of Delhi. Second, there is a serious concern for primary health and education because it is established that the lack of these local services is the major source of deprivation among urban settlers. Finally, we report how well different income classes are served in these cities: the rich are worst-off in Calcutta and best-off in Bombay. Middle income and poor citizens are best-off and worst-off in Delhi and Bombay, respectively. IS - 3 JF - RURDS TI - Deprivation and incidence of urban public services: A tale of three cities VL - 12 KW - cities KW - goods KW - infrastructure KW - public AU - Gangopadhyay, Partha AU - Nath, Shyam PY - 2001/// ER -