Urban Quality of Life: An assessment and ranking for Indian cities

Patil, Gopal R.; Sharma, Gajanand

doi:10.1016/j.tranpol.2020.11.009

Cited by 25 publications

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“…The state also has a progressive outlook corresponding to gender equality criteria contributing to targets under SDGs according to the NITI Aayog ranking of state performance (Pandey, 2018). A recent study by Patil and Sharma (2020) suggests that Chennai, the capital of Tamil Nadu, is the most women-friendly city and scores high on gender parity.…”

Section: Research Context: Tamil Nadumentioning

confidence: 99%

Career choice, growth and well-being of women entrepreneurs’ community: insights on driving factors in India

Banu

Baral

2021

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Purpose This paper aims to explore the entrepreneurial journey of select women entrepreneurs from South India to provide qualitative insights into the factors influencing their career choice (to become and continue as an entrepreneur) and to identify the drivers of their growth and well-being. Design/methodology/approach Semi-structured interviews were conducted to gather data from 35 women entrepreneurs in the micro, small and medium enterprises sectors of Tamil Nadu, India. Data were content analyzed using NVivo 12. Findings Qualitative content analysis identified three broad themes and several sub-themes to suggest a conceptual framework reflecting the possible relationships among them. Women entrepreneurs’ career choice, the growth of their ventures and their well-being were found to be significantly driven by a blend of personal attributes, strong family support and institutional support. Practical implications The findings will help the government to provide appropriate institutional support with customized initiatives and incentives to encourage women-owned tiny and small businesses to grow faster. Appropriate personality development programs and skills training will aid their growth. Originality/value This study contributes to the entrepreneurship literature by providing real-life insights from women entrepreneurs from an emerging economy context, especially from Tamil Nadu, which has the highest number of women entrepreneurs in India.

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Section: Research Context: Tamil Nadumentioning

confidence: 99%

Career choice, growth and well-being of women entrepreneurs’ community: insights on driving factors in India

Banu

Baral

2021

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“…The first 'Accessibility' factor indicates the comfortable distance to access the places responsible for better livability (Badland et al, 2014;Salleh & Badarulzaman, 2012). It was found that the similar transportation access has highest contribution to QOUL (Patil & Sharma, 2020). Previous research proven that greater accessibility to opportunities can have a positive impact on real estate values (Cordera et al, 2019).…”

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confidence: 85%

“…The 'Social Well-being' factors depend on general safety and clean environment also impacts on urban livability to a great extent (Martínez et al, 2015). Patil and Sharma (2020), also studied similar indicator under safety, security and environmental impact under gender role inspiring the quality of urban live in India (Patil & Sharma, 2020). It is important for Indian cities that the factors need to be further investigated to gain insights into perceived and measured components that influence environmental quality (Dutta et al, 2013).…”

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confidence: 99%

Latent factor analysis and measurement on sustainable urban livability in Siliguri Municipal Corporation, West Bengal through EFA and CFA model

Adhikari

Roy

2021

Comput.Urban Sci.

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United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal targets to make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable; as it is predicting 95% urban expansion in the next decades. Consequently, urban livability can serve as a useful conceptual and analytical framework to improve the quality of urban life by facilitating the evaluation of the person–environment relationship and leading the improvement without deteriorating the environmental conditions. This present paper aims to identify the dimensions and indicators of subjective and objective livability for Siliguri Municipal Corporation (SMC). The residents’ perception has been carried out using stratified random sampling technique. Samples have been collected from the residents from each core, semi-periphery and peripheral areas of SMC. Mainly, adaptation of Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) and Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) model involves four livability dimensions; under which the overall model explains 65% of the total variance indicating with the high reliability (α > 0.7) and the Goodness-of-fit index (GFI) about 0.90. The result indicates that, ‘Accessibility Factor’ bears the highest impact (24.91%) among the four latent variables and ‘Socio-Economic’ factor has the lower impact (8.39%) upon the urban livability.

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“…Therefore, urban QOL is a complex multidimensional concept with extensive connotations, covering all aspects of residents' lives, and it is usually measured by a comprehensive evaluation index of social and economic development. Such a method is mostly subjective and used in sociological and psychological research, such as by Zhang et al (2019), Patil (2020), and Zhang et al (2021) [13][14][15]. However, in urban economics, a hedonic model is usually used to quantify the implicit value of QOL based on housing price and wage level.…”

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Urban Quality of Life and Production Amenity in Chinese Cities

Zou

Shu

2022

Sustainability

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Do firms and households like the same cities? Can the quality of the business environment be compatible with the quality of life? We develop a new methodology based on the Rosen–Roback general equilibrium model for answering these questions and apply it to newly collected and manually matched data from Chinese cities. In order to overcome the challenges that arise when measuring the desirability of cities, we set up indexes of production amenities as well as the urban quality of life, and use wages and housing costs to estimate the implied prices of cities, i.e., the residents’ and firms’ willingness to pay for urban features. Our examination of the dynamic trends and influencing factors shows that firms and households differ in preference over urban features, many cities which are attractive to firms are unattractive to households, and vice versa. More specifically, in China, households prefer cities with better leisure conditions, entertainment, culture, and education resources, while firms are willing to allocate production in cities with less sunshine, more rainfall, better infrastructure, and fewer environmental restrictions. Our paper provides a unified perspective on the measurement of urban quality of life and production amenity. We also give policy suggestions to get a better grip on the functions and roles of cities; this is of practical significance for sustainable urban development.

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Urban Quality of Life: An assessment and ranking for Indian cities

Cited by 25 publications

References 24 publications

Career choice, growth and well-being of women entrepreneurs’ community: insights on driving factors in India

Career choice, growth and well-being of women entrepreneurs’ community: insights on driving factors in India

Latent factor analysis and measurement on sustainable urban livability in Siliguri Municipal Corporation, West Bengal through EFA and CFA model

Urban Quality of Life and Production Amenity in Chinese Cities

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