Product Description: Urban areas are integral to India s growth and development, accounting for around two-thirds of the country s GDP. Analysing India s rapidly expanding process of urbanisation, the book identifies the key challenges and opportunities and proposes suitable managerial and policy reforms...read more

Product Description: Asia’s rapid economic growth has led to a significant reduction in extreme poverty, but accompanied by rising inequality. This book deals with three questions: What have been the trends of inequality in Asia and the Pacific? What are the key drivers of rising inequality in the region? How should Asian countries respond to the rising inequality? Technological change, globalization, and market-oriented reform have been the key drivers of Asia’s remarkable growth and poverty reduction, but they have also had significant distribution consequences...read more

Product Description: China’s spectacular growth and poverty reduction has been accompanied by growing inequality which threatens the social compact and thus the political basis for economic growth. Chinese policy makers have realized the importance of the problem and have launched a series of investigations and policy initiatives to address the issues...read more

Product Description: • What has been the evolution of poverty and equity during the recent globalizing decades?• How have poor countries fared on the Millennium Development Goals?• What role does wealth inequality play in the level and efficiency of investment and, hence, in economic growth?• Is gender equity a smart pro-growth strategy as well as a pro-poor one?• How is equality different from equality of opportunity, and should policy makers pursue one, the other, or both?• In formulating distributional strategies, should the middle class be integrally considered, or should the focus be entirely on the poorest of the poor?• What are the precise impacts of globalization on poverty and equity, and what are the policy implications of these impacts?• Is the problem with globalization that a key element is missing―the globalization of labor employment?• What is the role of international migration in the evolution of equity within and between nations?This book has been prepared for the Commission on Growth and Development to evaluate the state of knowledge on the relationship between poverty, equity, and globalization...read more

Product Description: After three decades of spectacular economic growth in China, the problem is no longer how to achieve growth, but how to manage its consequences and how to sustain it. The most important consequence, at least as far as Chinese policy makers are concerned, is the rapidly growing inequality, between persons, between rural and urban areas, and between inland and coastal regions...read more

Product Description: Amartya Sen has made deep and lasting contributions to the academic disciplines of economics, philosophy, and the social sciences more broadly. He has engaged in policy dialogue and public debate, advancing the cause of a human development focused policy agenda, and a tolerant and democratic polity...read more

Product Description: This authoritative volume explores poverty and labor market issues over the first decade of democracy in South Africa. It is an attempt by leading South African scholars—supplemented by the work of international scholars working on South Africa—to take stock of the first post-apartheid decade, to assess the evolution of poverty, inequality, human needs, and unemployment, and to relate this evolution to the policy stances and interventions of the first government elected freely by all South Africans...read more

'This is an introduction to spatial and regional inequality. Drawing on data from 25 countries from around the world, it examines the questions: What exactly is spatial inequality? Why does it matter? And what should be the policy response to it?'--Provided by publisher.