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    Towards Smarter Service Provision for Smart Cities: Accounting for the Social Costs of Urban Service Provision

    Anil Markandya; Aarsi Sagar; Srikanth Shastry; Sahana Goswami; Indro Ray; Zeba Aziz; Sandeep Paul; Madhav Pai; Anirudh Tagat; Apurba Chatterjee | February 2018
    Abstract
    Considered to be the largest contributor to the growth in the world’s urban population in the coming years, India and its urbanisation process have reached a critical juncture. As one of the fastest growing countries, urbanisation is undoubtedly an opportunity and a challenge for India with huge implications for the rest of the world. One crucial issue in this respect is the provisioning of basic urban services in our cities. Through a case study of four Indian cities, this work examines the current unmanaged growth (business as usual urbanisation) and the costs associated with it. Using a social cost accounting (SCA) methodology, it estimates the market and non-market costs associated with the delivery of water, sanitation, transport and energy services. Thus the study goes beyond often discussed issues of access to services and the direct costs involved and invites attention to often ignored social and environmental costs. Each service provision is also categorized into public, private and self-provision across the three sectors and explored further. The study highlights that despite high levels of coverage in the four cities, the quantity and quality of services are inadequate in many respects, especially in the case of water and transport, and have high associated social and environmental costs.
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    Anil Markandya; Aarsi Sagar; Srikanth Shastry; Sahana Goswami; Indro Ray; Zeba Aziz; Sandeep Paul; Madhav Pai; Anirudh Tagat; Apurba Chatterjee. 2018. Towards Smarter Service Provision for Smart Cities: Accounting for the Social Costs of Urban Service Provision. © Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/8051.
    Keywords
    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
    Results-Based Monitoring And Evaluation
    Project Evaluation & Review Technique
    Project Evaluation
    Program Evaluation
    Performance Evaluation
    Operations Evaluation
    Evaluation Methods
    Evaluation
    Urban Plans
    Urbanism
    Urban agriculture
    Economic Development
    Rural Urban Migration
    Cities
    Project impact
    Development projects
    Program management
    Performance appraisal
    Project appraisal
    Technology assessment
    Local government
    Urban renewal
    Urban housing
    Urban sociology
    Transit systems
    Rapid transit
    Public transit
    Mass transit
    Cumulative effects assessment
    Grievance procedures
    Participatory monitoring and evaluation
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    Anil Markandya
    Aarsi Sagar
    Srikanth Shastry
    Sahana Goswami
    Indro Ray
    Zeba Aziz
    Sandeep Paul
    Madhav Pai
    Anirudh Tagat
    Apurba Chatterjee
    Theme
    Urban
    Evaluation
    Labor Migration

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