A Comparative Study of Living Conditions in Slums of Three Metro Cities in India

Sugata Bag (), Suman Seth () and Anish Gupta

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Abstract: A comparative study of representative slums across three largest metro cities in India through primary surveys. It is found that certain characteristics, such as large average household size, poor housing quality, low female labour market participation and high school enrolment rates among children, to be common across and within three cities.

Keywords: living conditions; slums; metro cities; India; primary household survey in slums; Kolkata; Delhi; Mumbai; migration; multidimensional material deprivation; migrants; Per Capita Income; Consumption Expenditure and Inequality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-04
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