{"id":33244,"date":"2015-01-30T12:03:24","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T11:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=33244"},"modified":"2015-01-30T17:12:38","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T16:12:38","slug":"jocalyn-clark-are-slums-creating-equality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2015\/01\/30\/jocalyn-clark-are-slums-creating-equality\/","title":{"rendered":"Jocalyn Clark: Are slums creating equality?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2014\/05\/Jocalyn_Clark1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-31606\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2014\/05\/Jocalyn_Clark1-243x300.jpg\" alt=\"Jocalyn_Clark1\" width=\"174\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2014\/05\/Jocalyn_Clark1-243x300.jpg 243w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2014\/05\/Jocalyn_Clark1.jpg 538w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 174px) 100vw, 174px\" \/><\/a>When you fly into Mumbai from the east, there is an extraordinary descent passing over mounds of lush green foothills reminiscent of Hawaii. It\u2019s quite mesmerising. And then even more so is what lays at the foot of these foothills: a vast sprawl of tin roofed shanties, which I later learn is a slum of over 300 acres housing nearly 100 000 people. The slum literally encroaches upon the airfield, creating the illusion of a patchwork carpet leading on to the runway.<\/p>\n<p>Inside the international airport are all the flashy trappings of a modern, bustling air and shopping terminal. Perhaps, I wonder, this is how the pace of development in South Asia is to be measured\u2014not by absolute economic measures, but instead by how wide the gap is between the slum and the slick.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This question of inequality became all the more curious to me when the World Bank last week announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/openknowledge.worldbank.org\/handle\/10986\/20395\">upward social mobility in South Asia is comparable to that in the US<\/a>. In other words, it should be just as possible for an Indian or Bangladeshi to move out of poverty into the middle class as it is for an American.<\/p>\n<p>In Mumbai, at least, it\u2019s hard not to think of social mobility in terms of slums. Mumbai itself is home to up to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/mumbai\/62-of-mumbai-lives-in-slums-census\/article1-614027.aspx\">9 million slum dwellers<\/a>\u2014an astonishing half of its population. The massive slum famously depicted in the film <em>Slumdog Millionaire<\/em>, Dharavi, is inhabited by one million people on 535 acres in the centre of town. Like Mumbai\u2019s poorer megacity cousin, Dhaka, where I live, slums are that reservoir of mass migration from rural areas that makes them an urban fixture.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/01\/slums.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-33247\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/01\/slums-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"slums\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/01\/slums-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/01\/slums-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2015\/01\/slums.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The view as\u00a0you fly into Mumbai from the east<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For years, many economists have thought slums are good\u2014a bridge on the journey from rural poverty to urban prosperity. I\u2019ve <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plos.org\/speakingofmedicine\/2014\/10\/30\/urbanisation-close\/\">previously described the Kamalapur slum<\/a> in Dhaka as a remarkably lively, resilient place. Dharavi has been the subject of many pieces of\u00a0journalism touting its entrepreneurial spirit, which is said to fuel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebaffler.com\/salvos\/slumming-it\">a billion dollar slum economy<\/a>. The new World Bank analysis <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/indian-dream-world-bank-says-social-mobility-india-comparable-us-301088\">seems to reinforce this idea<\/a> that rapid urbanisation is the launch pad to upward mobility.<\/p>\n<p>So are slums a ticket out of poverty? Another recent study, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/finance-and-economics\/21595939-shanty-towns-may-be-more-trap-economists-thought-down-and-out\">reported in the <em>Economist<\/em><\/a>, says no. Researchers at the\u00a0Massachusetts Institute of Technology characterised 138 000 slum households around the world. They found that the longer a family has lived in a Bangladesh slum, <a href=\"http:\/\/pubs.aeaweb.org\/doi\/pdfplus\/10.1257\/jep.27.4.187\">the lower its income<\/a>. The same is true in Kenya. Most slum dwellers have no clean water, private toilets, or basic sanitation. This alone, with its ripple effect on illness and inability to work, can keep people stuck in poverty. Eighty two per cent of slum dwellers in the Bangladeshi\u00a0slums of Tongi and Jessore had been sick in the past month, the study says.<\/p>\n<p>It may be that\u00a0not\u00a0all slums are created equal, and that some provide easier escapes to the stable employment and consumption <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/indian-dream-world-bank-says-social-mobility-india-comparable-us-301088\">that characterises the middle class<\/a>. Other slums will become the home of the middle class\u2014as in Mumbai, where teachers and police officers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2014\/08\/25\/welcome-to-the-billion-man-slum.html\">are too poorly paid to move out<\/a>. But many slum dwellers will stay trapped and unable to ascend from inhospitable and unhealthy living environments, which are underserved by public works. In this way, a slum is a slum is a slum. That makes slums a necessary barometer for monitoring social mobility and equality.<\/p>\n<p><em>Jocalyn Clark (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jocalynclark\">@jocalynclark<\/a>) is executive editor of the <\/em>Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition<em>, and other external publications at icddr,b (a global health research organisation in Dhaka, Bangladesh). She was a senior editor at <\/em>PLOS Medicine<em>\u00a0and assistant editor at <\/em>The BMJ<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Competing interests: The author has no further interests to declare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you fly into Mumbai from the east, there is an extraordinary descent passing over mounds of lush green foothills reminiscent of Hawaii. It\u2019s quite mesmerising. 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