Author : M. Lakshmi Narasaiah
Publisher :
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 32,46 MB
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : India
ISBN : 9788183562386
Book Description
Is abandoning the cities and answer to the growing ecological problems of urbanization? The trend at any rate is in the opposite direction. At the beginning of this century, only every 10th person worldwide was a city dweller. At its end, more than half the global population will be urbanites. And most of the urban population growth will take place in the developing countries, led by Asia. Contents: Can Economic Growth Reduce Poverty? New Findings on Inequality, Economic Growth and Poverty, Challenging Traditional Economic Growth, Technological Entrepreneurship: The New Force for Economic Growth, High World Trade Growth Vs. Output: WTO Sees Link to Globalisation, Economics and Sustainable Development, Urbanisation and the Environment, Population Growth and Urbanisation, Urbanisation in India and Limitations, Towards Healthy Cities, Cities Residents to the Rescue, Urbanisation and Globalisation, Sustainable Cities, The Dematerialisation of the World Economy, Towards a New Policy on Poverty Reduction, Economic and Environment, Population Growth and Energy, Corporate Ambitions in Education, Unemployment in the Poor and Rich Worlds: Different Causes, But Converging Policies?, Cities at the Forefront, Land Tenure: Securing Land for the Urban Poor, Rural Poverty in India, Employment and Poverty Alleviation, The Persistence of Indian Poverty and its Alleviation, Overcoming the Poverty in India and the Lessons Learned, Aid Effectiveness as a Multi-Level Process, Living with Leviathan.