Assessment of social sustainable development in urban India by a composite index

Panda, Sudha; Chakraborty, Manjari; Misra, S.K.

doi:10.1016/j.ijsbe.2016.08.001

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“…For instance, Alen et al [28] have used composite indicators to assess national progress and priorities for SD in Australia. Panda et al [29] have used composite indicators for assessing SD in Indian cities. Rahma et al [27] have used composite indicators for assessing SD in Indonesia.…”

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Assessing Progress Towards Sustainable Development in the Urban Periphery: A Case of Greater Cairo, Egypt

Salem¹,

Naoki²,

Divigalpitiya³

et al. 2020

IJSDP

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During the last few decades, sustainable development (SD) has increasingly received attention globally. Therefore, international organizations and researchers sought to assess progress towards SD at different territorial levels. However, most of the studies were conducted at the city level and a very small number of studies has conducted at the urban periphery territory. This study aims to fill the current research gap through assessing the progress towards SD in the urban periphery of Greater Cairo (GC) in Egypt between 1996-2017. Eight composite indicators have been employed to assess the progress towards SD in this territory. These composite indicators were constructed based on the 14 individual indicators associated with sustainable development goals. The results showed meaningful progress achieved in the peripheral municipalities of GC, particularly in infrastructure and education indicators, while the economic and environmental indicators have deteriorated, particularly after the civic revolution of 2011. In addition, the study found a development gap between the urban periphery and the main urban agglomeration in GC, particularly in the infrastructure aspect. These results highlight the deficiencies that exist in the urban periphery of GC which help decision-makers to prepare appropriate policies to improve SD in such territory.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Assessing Progress Towards Sustainable Development in the Urban Periphery: A Case of Greater Cairo, Egypt

Salem¹,

Naoki²,

Divigalpitiya³

et al. 2020

IJSDP

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“…Global organizations such as the World Bank, UN-Habitat and Asian Development Bank have taken significant initiatives across different countries to measure sustainability. But these global initiatives have encountered problems in implementing their strategy in India because they have failed to address country specific constraints (Panda, Chakraborty, & Misra, 2016). Hence it is very important to have a tailor made comprehensive sustainability framework to address the problems which are typical to India (Panda, Chakraborty, & Misra, 2016).…”

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Kumar

Santara

Banerji

2020

IRSPSD International

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“…At the regional level analysis, Anand and Roy (2016), Kipp et al (2016), Wullert and Williamson (2016), Mújica et al (2015), Ezeh et al (2015), He et al (2018), Khadka et al (2015), Kennedy et al (2016) Ortiz-Correa et al (2016), Mehretie Adinew et al (2017), Dasgupta et al (2016), Keskin et al (2017), Shih et al (2017), He and Perloff (2016), Wang and Yang (2016), Bhalotra et al (2017) and Sharif (2016) held the same opinion. For India, Duflo et al (2015), Gupta and Mondal (2015), Lakshminarayanan and Jayalakshmy (2015), Parikh et al (2015), Patel et al (2015), Singh et al (2015), Subbaraman and Murthy (2015), Barenberg et al (2016), Bhattacharyya (2016), Gupta et al (2016a), Gupta et al (2016b), Kusneniwar et al (2016); Panda et al (2016), Parker et al (2016), Ranjan (2017), Reddy et al (2017), Do et al (2018) all agreed that better access to improved water sources will lead to lower IMR. For a more detailed consideration of relevant literature one might consider Banerjee et al (2020)…”

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Demystifying the Aquatic Paradox: The Infant Mortality in India

Banerjee

Singh

Bhattacharya

et al. 2020

Journal of Health Management

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It is evident that better access to improved water sources will lead to the lessening of infant mortality rate (IMR). However, for India, such inference is ambiguous. There is a strong group of academicians such as Sahu et al. (2015) , Arun et al. (2017) and Tripathy and Mishra (2017) and organizations such as UNICEF that firmly believe that if access to the improved water sources can be improved, then there would be tremendous social welfare and much betterment to the IMR. On the other hand, Banerjee et al. (2020) have refuted such claims and opined that access to improved water sources increases the IMR. The empirical validation of their claim has been flawless, but they are somewhat silent on why such a direct relationship between IMR and improved water source exists. They have made a comment based on assumptions that it might be complacency that develops with access to improved water sources that refrain the people to consider any type of water treatment before passing it to infants for drinking. Such a comment might be valid, but neither is it built upon a sound literature review nor does it stand on strong empirics. At this juncture, the present article tests the claim of Banerjee et al. (2020) based on pure empirics.

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Assessment of social sustainable development in urban India by a composite index

Cited by 68 publications

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Assessing Progress Towards Sustainable Development in the Urban Periphery: A Case of Greater Cairo, Egypt

Assessing Progress Towards Sustainable Development in the Urban Periphery: A Case of Greater Cairo, Egypt

Pentagram Sustainability Model

Demystifying the Aquatic Paradox: The Infant Mortality in India

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