Urban Headway and Upward Mobility in India

Focuses on various aspects of urbanisation in India and its impact on socio-economic variables.

List of contents

List of tables; Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Assessing the quality of cities and towns; 3. New patterns and new strategies in Indian urbanization; 4. Growth, informal sector employment and poverty; 5. Upward mobility of the disadvantaged sections; 6. Erosion of the caste factor?; 7. Changes in a cultural variable; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Arup Mitra is Professor of Economics at the Institute of Economic Growth, New Delhi. He currently holds a joint position as the Dean of the Faculty of Economics at the South Asian University, New Delhi. He has been a senior researcher at the International Labour Organization (ILO), Geneva, and held the Indian Economy Chair at Sciences Po, Paris. His research interest includes issues in development, urbanisation, labour, corruption, industrialisation and productivity, services sector and gender inequality. He co-authored Corruption and Development in Indian Economy (with Chandan Sharma, 2016).

Summary

This book focuses on various aspects of urbanisation in India and its impact on socio-economic variables. It brings to the forefront the resilience of the social system that can be mitigated through significant interventions into some of the economic variables. Policy implications of the evidence based research are discussed.

Product details

• Authors: Mitra Arup Mitra, Arup Mitra, Mitra Arup
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9781108496360
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49636-0
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Economics, Asia, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, India, macroeconomics, Labour / income economics, Labour Economics, economic growth, Political Economy, Economic systems and structures, Economic systems & structures, urban economics, Development economics & emerging economies, South Asia (Indian sub-continent), Development economics and emerging economies, Regional / urban economics