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CHALLENGES OF URBANIZATION

INEQUALITY IN CITIES

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India - 0.56
Gender Inequality Index 130/188
Pakistan – 121
Bangladesh - 111
Nepal - 108
Sri lanka – 72
China – 40
Myanmar – 85
Factors considered while
calculating GII
1. Maternal mortality ratio
2. Adolescent birth rate
3. Share of seats in parliament
4. Population with at least some
secondary education
5. Labour force participation rate
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Much of the inequality literature has focused on

national inequality, but local inequality is also
important. Crime rates are higher in more unequal
cities; people in unequal cities are more likely to say
that they are unhappy.

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Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen has argued, the

bigger the gap between rich and poor, the harder it is
for the children of rich and poor to have equal
opportunities

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compared to 29% of Hindus, an impressive 40% of

Muslims and Christians live in urban areas. In short,
the socially oppressed and spatially disadvantaged
continue to flock to cities and towns to escape
degrading social practices of segregation and
discrimination

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Dalits and Adivasi are still heavily concentrated within

certain geographical areas of cities, mostly in
unauthorized settlements and poor neighbourhoods.

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Secondly, the location of a neighbourhood greatly

determines the services it receives. Survey after
survey found that slums and informal settlements
located on city peripheries do not receive basic
services such as drinking water, sanitation, healthcare
and food stamps

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The fourth lesson is that exclusion plays out in

complex ways. Recent migrants, irrespective of their
socio-religious identities, are the most excluded of all
groups. This clearly points to the absence of reliable
municipal governance and enabling institutional
processes to draw new groups into the existing
service delivery systems.

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