Anand Sahasranaman
Biographic Data
| ID | 6390668 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anand Sahasranaman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anand |
| FAMILY NAME | Sahasranaman |
| SIGNATURE | SAHASRANAMAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Anand Sahasranaman, IFMR Finance Foundation, IIT Madras Research Park, Kanagam Road, Taramani, Chennai. |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9613-8041 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Amalgamating Urban Scaling and Economic Complexity for New Metrics of Urban Fitness
We propose a synthesis of the independent scientific frameworks of economic complexity and urban scaling into a consistent mechanism— city complexity —to measure multi-dimensional fitness of cities. Essentially, we use deviations from scaling law for a given set of urban outcomes as the basis to construct a bipartite city-outcome matrix. This matrix forms the input into the economic complexity methodology, which iterates over a pair of coupled no…
Economic geography and the scaling of urban and regional income in India
We undertake an exploration of the economic income (gross domestic product) of Indian districts and cities based on scaling analyses of the dependence of these quantities on associated population size. Scaling analysis provides a straightforward method for the identification of network effects in socioeconomic organization, which are the tell-tale signs of cities and urbanization. For districts, a sub-state regional administrative division in Ind…
Life between the city and the village
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 has been the growth and persistence of slums in its fast-developing cities. Whether living conditions in Indian slums constitute a path to human development or a poverty trap to much of their population is therefore an issue of vital importance. Here, we analyse data f…
Pragmatic Municipal Finance Reform in India
The 74 th Constitutional Amendment Act (CAA) enacted in 1993 gave urban local governments constitutional status and aimed to strengthen municipal governance. Municipalities were to be given greater responsibilities in the provision of basic infrastructure and social services and financial power was also to be devolved. Now, seventeen years since the passage of this constitutional amendment, the promise held out by decentralization has remained la…
Life between the city and the village
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 has been the growth and persistence of slums in its fast-developing cities. Whether living conditions in Indian slums constitute a path to human development or a poverty trap to much of their population is therefore an issue of vital importance. Here, we analyse data f…
Pragmatic Municipal Finance Reform in India
The 74 th Constitutional Amendment Act (CAA) enacted in 1993 gave urban local governments constitutional status and aimed to strengthen municipal governance. Municipalities were to be given greater responsibilities in the provision of basic infrastructure and social services and financial power was also to be devolved. Now, seventeen years since the passage of this constitutional amendment, the promise held out by decentralization has remained la…
Economic geography and the scaling of urban and regional income in India
We undertake an exploration of the economic income (gross domestic product) of Indian districts and cities based on scaling analyses of the dependence of these quantities on associated population size. Scaling analysis provides a straightforward method for the identification of network effects in socioeconomic organization, which are the tell-tale signs of cities and urbanization. For districts, a sub-state regional administrative division in Ind…
Life between the city and the village
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 has been the growth and persistence of slums in its fast-developing cities. Whether living conditions in Indian slums constitute a path to human development or a poverty trap to much of their population is therefore an issue of vital importance. Here, we analyse data f…
Amalgamating Urban Scaling and Economic Complexity for New Metrics of Urban Fitness
We propose a synthesis of the independent scientific frameworks of economic complexity and urban scaling into a consistent mechanism— city complexity —to measure multi-dimensional fitness of cities. Essentially, we use deviations from scaling law for a given set of urban outcomes as the basis to construct a bipartite city-outcome matrix. This matrix forms the input into the economic complexity methodology, which iterates over a pair of coupled no…
Socioeconomic status (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Demography (2 works) · Demography (2 works) · Economic and Technological Innovation (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Economy (2 works) · Population (2 works) · Poverty (2 works)