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Bangladesh’s Urban Space Today: Implications for the Growth Agenda
Figure 2.14 International Benchmarking of Infrastructure, Services, and Amenities in Dhaka City, 2010 a. Infrastructure, services, and amenities Healthcare 100
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b. Infrastructure sectors Public transport 4 3 Telecommunications
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Lower-middle-income cities (34) Source: EIU 2010. Note: In panel a, 1 = lowest; 100 = highest. In panel b, 0 = intolerable; 1= undesirable; 2 = uncomfortable; 3 = tolerable; 4 = acceptable. Figures in parentheses indicate the number of cities. Dhaka City refers to the Dhaka City Corporation.
education, and culture and environment), according to the Economic Intelligence Unit (EIU)’s annual ranking of 140 cities worldwide.13 Dhaka was rated as the least livable city among the 140 cities surveyed by the EIU in 2012, one position worse than its rank as second least livable city in 2011 (EIU 2012). Relative to cities in other low-income countries, Dhaka has a significant infrastructure and service delivery gap across all sectors except water supply (figure 2.14). Other cities in Bangladesh fare even worse than Dhaka in the Bangladesh • http://dx.doi.org/10.1596/978-0-8213-9859-3