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Gentrification
This chapter reviews the recent evidence in Urban Economics on gentrification. The first part of the chapter provides a definition of gentrification...
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Informality
This chapter looks in some detail at informality as an unfortunate but defining feature of the Rest. It is something that modernist recipient...
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Introduction
We all know that one of the greatest challenges that almost all develo** countries are confronted with is the rapid growth of urbanization that...
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Cycle of Poverty: Analysing the Social Structures of the Women of Kapashera
This feminist ethnographic study explores the intersection of work, informalityInformality, and gender dynamics in KapasheraKapashera, a peri-urban...
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Rapid Urbanization: The Challenges and Opportunities for Planning in Indonesian Cities
Within the rapidly urbanizing Southeast Asia region, Indonesia’s largest cities are among those experiencing the highest rates of growth. The Jakarta...
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Sheltering Urban Poor: Looking for a New Approach
Degree of urbanization varies spatiotemporally in IndiaIndia, and so also the levels of urban povertyPoverty. Taking examples of two states in India...
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Housing in Smart City—The Emperor has No Clothes
The idea of ‘smart citiesSmart City’ is being implemented in IndiaIndia through Smart CitiesSmart City Mission (SCM). This paper, taking an example...
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For the Urban Poor’s Fairer Share in the Housing Process—Takeaways from People for Policy and Practice
The Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana–Housing for All (Urban) mission of the GovernmentGovernment of IndiaIndia, with four mutually exclusive verticals, has...
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Affordable Housing Policies in South Asia: Key Issues and Recommendations
South AsiaSouth Asia isAffordable housing unable to realize the full potential of the benefits of rapid growth due to the messy and hidden nature of...
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State of National Healthcare and the Pandemic
That context and initial conditions matter is shown in this chapter, which discusses the strengths and weaknesses of the public healthcare...
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Introduction to Accessible Housing
This introductory chapter of the book aims to present the recurring issue of market and policy failuresPolicy failures in accessible...
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Introduction
This chapter provides an introduction to the papers in this volume that discuss the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on social and economic...
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The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Female Domestic Workers in an Urban Setting
This paper focuses on the increasing marginalisation and vulnerability of female domestic workers in urban India in the wake of the COVID-19...
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Conversion of Waste Polythene Bags/Wrappers into Useful Products
Solid waste management and conversion of waste polythene bags/wrappers is the proposed pilot by World Vision India jointly with Green for Life...
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Conclusion, Challenges and Recommendations
On the basis of discussions in the earlier chapters, this chapter explicitly contends that hasty expansion of urbanization has augmented the growth...
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Assessing the Social Support and Resilience of the Inhabitants of Marginalized Communities amid COVID-19 Pandemic in Iran: A Shiraz Metropolis Case Study
Background: Marginalized communities were extremely vulnerable to health, social, psychological, and economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic....
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The Rest Strikes Back
This chapter looks at the many ways that the Rest resists and counters the donor onslaught. These include using donors to legitimize grand policies,...
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Introduction
This chapter explains the essence and need for financial inclusion in the Inclusive Development Mechanism and describes the importance of India’s...
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Urbanization-Led Neo Risks and Vulnerabilities: A New Challenge
This chapter dwells upon neo-urban risks and their relationship with the climate change, being discussed world over at different national and...
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Basic Principles to Understand Macroeconomics
The assumptions of neoclassical theory fail to appropriately account for the complexity and dynamics of a capitalist economy. This chapter introduces...