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Tendencies for Sub-optimal or Post-growth Pathways
This chapter reviews the sub-optimal growth or post-growth proposals, which have become increasingly influential, that are motivated against the...
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Overview and Characteristics of International Urban Migration
This chapter first analyzes the development of international urban migration from both the aggregate and regional perspectives based on “The World...
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The Crisis of Extreme Inequality in India
The Covid-19 pandemic and the lockdowns have exposed and exacerbated the crisis of extreme inequalities in India. Using multiple nationally...
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Learning from Overrated Mission-Oriented Innovation Policies: Seven Takeaways
This chapter integrates findings from several different case studies on mission-oriented innovation policies (MOIPs) and makes use of the existing...
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The Origin of Money as the Ability to Obtain Goods and Services
The chapter provides examples of the origin of the ability, including historical ones. However, it also notes that though examples from the history...
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Reflections on African Cities in Transition Selected Continental Experiences
This volume describes African cities in transition, and the economic, socio-political, and environmental challenges resulting from rapid...
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Inclusive development of minorities in Karnataka
Available literature by researchers, committees and commissions established the fact that the minorities of Karnataka are economically an excluded...
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Slum Upgrading and Housing Alternatives for the Poor
Slums and informal settlements continue to proliferate in cities and towns across Africa. The chapter summarizes the tenets of the twin-track...
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Post-independence Politics in Africa
The independence of African countries offered an opportunity to reform the institutional structures inherited from the colonialists and to develop...
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Progress in Applied Econometrics in India: A Selective Review
During the past 25 years or so, econometrics has grown at a very rapid pace, and has come to play a major role in the development of the economics...
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From Villa to Barrio
This chapter discusses the urbanization project of Villa 31 located in the center side of the city. It examines Buenos Aires’ neoliberal urban...
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Research on the Management and Transformation of Urban Villages in Urban and Rural Integration
Urbanization is an important trend in the socio-economic development of countries in the contemporary world. Driven by the reform and opening up and...
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Live Free and Thrive!
Carla Gericke has been called one of the “Most Interesting Women in the World.”
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Infrastructure
Infrastructure is one of the basic requirements for social and economic development. There is an enormous need for infrastructural development such...
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Poverty, Inequality and Development Studies with Machine Learning
This chapter provides a hopefully complete ‘ecosystem’ of the literature on the use of machine learning (ML) methods for poverty, inequality, and...
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Vulnerability of Construction Workers During COVID-19: Tracking Welfare Responses and Challenges
This paper takes stock of the cash assistance provided by the government to construction workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. As the role of the...
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Introduction
In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, the global landscape underwent a profound transformation, revealing the fragility of existing systems and...
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Place-based factors affecting COVID-19 incidences in Turkey
In December 2019, COVID-19 infections first occurred in Wuhan City, China, after which it rapidly spread throughout the world. Today, COVID-19 has...
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Smart City and Urban Poor : Can They Coexist?
The Smart City as a concept is a new government initiative in India since last 5 years. The way the initiatives are going around in identified cities...