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    Relationship between Infrastructure and Population Agglomeration in Urban India: An Empirical Assessment

    Tripathi, Sabyasachi | May 2017
    Abstract
    Deficiency of urban infrastructure facilities is one of the main problems behind the lower rate of urbanization in India. It has also unfavorably affected the realization of the full potential of the urban sector’s contribution to national gross domestic product in India. From this perspective, by considering the population in Class I cities (cities with more than 100,000 people), this paper tries to investigate the relevant infrastructure factors that contribute to increase the size of urban populations of large cities in India. Secondly, it assesses the status of class I cities in India as per the availability of different infrastructure facilities and quality of public services. For the entire analysis, the paper uses data pertaining to Census periods 2001 and 2011. The results of the Borda ranking show that bigger cities (e.g., Greater Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Bangalore, and Thiruvananthapuram) have better provision of infrastructure facilities for their urban dwellers than the smaller Class I cities (as per the city population size). On the other hand, ordinary least square regression results show that at the city level, the total number of electricity connections, and the total number of schools, colleges, and universities have a strong positive impact on city population size. Overall estimated results of the regression analysis suggest that improvement of infrastructure facilities may not significantly increase population agglomeration (measured by size, density, and growth rate of city population) in the large cities, but it will substantially improve the potential contribution of the cities to national economic growth in India by improving the ease of living and by facilitating business activities.
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    Tripathi, Sabyasachi. 2017. Relationship between Infrastructure and Population Agglomeration in Urban India: An Empirical Assessment. © Asian Development Bank Institute. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/7281.
    Keywords
    Urban Plans
    Urbanism
    Urban agriculture
    Economic Development
    Rural Urban Migration
    Cities
    Development projects
    Physical infrastructure
    Soft infrastructure
    Infrastructure finance
    Infrastructure bonds
    Transport infrastructure
    Roads
    Highways
    Railways
    Ports
    Airports
    Pipelines
    Water supply
    Power production
    Power transmission
    Power distribution
    Telecommunications
    Infrastructure connectivity
    Cross border connectivity
    Urbanization
    Urban Services
    Urban Projects
    Urban Problems
    Urban Poverty
    Urban Policy
    Urban Planning
    Urban Infrastructure
    Urban Health
    Urban Government
    Urban Economic Development
    Urban Development Finance
    Urban Development
    Urban Conditions
    Urban Communities
    Urban Population
    Local government
    Urban renewal
    Urban housing
    Urban sociology
    Transit systems
    Rapid transit
    Public transit
    Mass transit
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    Tripathi, Sabyasachi
    Theme
    Infrastructure
    Urban
    Labor Migration
     
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