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Life Between the City and the Village: Comparative Analysis of Service Access in Indian Urban Slums
Anand Sahasranaman, Luís M. A. Bettencourt
The emergence of India as an urbanized nation is one of the most significant socioeconomic and political processes of the 21st century. An essential feature of India's urbanization…
Dynamics of reallocation within India's income distribution
Anand Sahasranaman, Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen
We investigate the nature and extent of reallocation occurring within the Indian income distribution, with a particular focus on the dynamics of the bottom of the distribution. Spe…
A self-consistent assessment of multi-dimensional fitness of cities
Anand Sahasranaman, Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen
Given the importance of urban sustainability and resilience to the future of our planet, there is a need to better understand the interconnectedness between the social, economic, e…
Economic geography and the scaling of urban and regional income in India
Anand Sahasranaman, Luis M. A. Bettencourt
We undertake an exploration of the economic income (Gross Domestic Product, GDP) of Indian districts and cities based on scaling analyses of the dependence of these quantities on a…