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Urban Studies, Vol. 45, No. 7, 1385-1412 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0042098008090679

Mapping Urban Poverty for Local Governance in an Indian Mega-City: The Case of Delhi

Isa Baud

The University of Amsterdam, Nieuwe Prinsengracht 130, 1018 VZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands, i.s.a.baud{at}uva.nl

N. Sridharan

School of Planning and Architecture, 4-B Indraprashtra Estate, New Delhi, 11 00 02, India, dr.nsridharan{at}gmail.com

Karin Pfeffer

The University of Amsterdam, Nieuwe Prinsengracht 130, 1018 VZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands, k.pfeffer{at}uva.nl

The article maps urban poverty, using the `livelihoods assets framework' to develop a new index of multiple deprivation, examining the implications for area and sector targeting by policy-makers. This article deals with the index and the results for Delhi. The study maps: the spatial concentration of poverty; the diversity of deprivation at ward level; whether poverty is concentrated in slums; and correlations between voting patterns and poverty levels. The index uses census data disaggregated to electoral-ward level for multicriteria analysis, through GIS. Results show that hotspots of poverty are diverse in character, but are not concentrated in slum areas, with strong implications for policy-making and poverty studies methodology. These results suggest that the new index allows better insight into poverty with better targeting possibilities for policy-makers.


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