Abstract
ABSTRACT Indian urban poverty research identifies slums as pockets of poverty, but official sources in developing countries typically underestimate poverty in and overlook poverty outside slum areas. In this research, deprived areas of Bengaluru outside of officially recognised slums are identified. An Index of Multiple Deprivation (in human, financial and physical capital) is estimated and mapped at the ward level. The research finds that deprivations are mainly concentrated in the city’s periphery and that human capital deprivation is a more serious driver of poverty than financial crunch. While the spatial mapping exercise in the paper has been adapted to Bengaluru, the theoretical contribution to urban and regional studies we make is the promotion of ‘people-based policies’. We argue that, irrespective of where the poor live, assistance should be provided based on measures of capital deprivations. Such analysis will help people-based approaches to eradicate poverty.
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