Objective:
- Apply an inequality lens to infrastructure,conceptualizing infrastructure as an urbanization dimension, to understand the spatial structure and characteristics of attendant unequal outcomes and more broadly, urban inequalities
Case:
- Emerging economies: India and South Africa
Methodology:
- Infrastructure inequality index
- OLS, PCA
Data Source
- Census
- Satellite data: VIIRS
Findings:
- Urbanization in India and South Africa is characterized by greater urban inequalities than rural inequalities
- Infrastructure inequality is more comparable than income inequality
- Greater inequality at the national and regional level compared to local scales
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