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Post-school Experiences of the Youth: Tracing Delhi Slum Dwellers from 2007/08 to 2018
India’s recent economic growth has not sufficiently absorbed the growth of the working-age population, particularly in employment with regular...
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Housing for All: From Rhetoric to A Reality Check on Slum Statistics for Operationalization of Flagship Missions in India
A negative perspective on slumsSlum in the domains of urban planningPlanning and data collection has been responsible for the process of exclusionary...
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Urban Slum Upgrading Best Practices in Bangladesh
People usually migrate from rural to urban areas (towns and cities) being compelled by factors like the growing number of landless households and...
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Global Best Practices of Urban Slum Development
Throughout the world, many governments and organizations have been working on the development of urban slums. All initiatives cannot be considered as...
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India’s Poor and Better-Off Urban Citizens: Cycles of Proximity and Segregation
After IndiaIndia’s independence in 1947 sought its leaders to provide the country’s urban slum dwellers with acceptable, accessible and affordable...
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The Impact of Financial Inclusion on Social and Political Empowerment: Mediating Role of Economic Empowerment
The primary purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of financial inclusion on women’s social and political empowerment through the mediation...
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Financial Inclusion Schemes in India
The exclusion of the destitute population from the formal financial system is a long-standing problem in India. This book examines the performance of...
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Impact of Recent Financial Inclusion Schemes on Economic and Financial Behavior of Poorest of the Poor
This chapter discusses in details income and financial behaviour patterns. In Sect. 6.2 we have discussed income expenditure mismatch in general and...
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Social Innovation as a Disruptor of Tenure: Recognising Land Rights of Slum Dwellers in Odisha, India
Ownership of much land globally is formally unrecorded. Advances in geospatial and drone technologies are enabling unmapped land to be recorded in...
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Slums on Railway Land in Guwahati City, Assam: A Sociological Review
The growth of slums has become a universal phenomenon in each urbanized city of the post-modern world. The slums in Guwahati have been settled on...
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The Face of Urbanization and Urban Poverty in Bangladesh Explaining the Slum Development Initiatives in the light of Global Experiences
The book presents academic research on urbanization, urban poverty and slum development initiatives in South Asia, in general, and Bangladesh, in...
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Urban Infrastructure and Labour Force Participation in India
In this paper, the impact of urban infrastructure investment on female labour force participation is studied for different income groups, namely the...
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India needs a minimum income guarantee post-pandemic: the design and the cost
Amidst increasing joblessness and indebtedness presented by employment and debt surveys, a minimum standard of living for India’s poor is under...
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Case Study Approach in Tackling Environmental, Physical and Social Sustainability in Bangkok
Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, is one of the megacities in Asia, with an estimated population exceeding 60 million people. This chapter provides...
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Risky choices and solidarity: disentangling different behavioural channels
We investigate whether informal support is sensitive to the extent to which individuals can influence their income risk exposure by opting into risk....
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Formation of Slums and Slums Upgrading Initiatives in Bangladesh
In the year 2008, the total urban population outstripped the rural population throughout the world. The majority of people who started to live in...
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Impacts of COVID-19 on Public Health in Urban Slums in India and Lessons for the Future
This paper examines the impact of the pandemic on India’s public health system of the country, especially from the perspective of urban slumdwellers....
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Gender, Migration, and Precarity: A Case Study of Migrant Women Waste Pickers from Assam
Rural to urban migration is rampant in India. Cities that are Petri dishes for rapid neo-liberal development can be unforgiving places for the...
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Whose Knowledge Makes a City Smart? Exploring Conceptions of the Role of Knowledge in Urban Policy in Indore, India
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has brought to light the need for greater participation of urban informal settlement dwellers in urban...
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Introductory
Youth employment has always been a matter of concern as many individuals participate in the job market at a young age much before acquiring enough...