The book narrates how opportunities and challenges of rapid urbanization in Dhaka are translated into realizing dreams of better lives and livelihoods, and prospects for a shared future for city dwellers - poor-non-poor, men-women, young-old, migrant-non-migrant. By defining the way in which cities should be planned and managed to best promote sustainable and equitable urbanization and integrating it with the national development agenda, this book has provided a road map that would create equal prospects for everyone to benefit from its prosperity.
The book narrates how opportunities and challenges of rapid urbanization in Dhaka are translated into realizing dreams of better lives and livelihoods, and prospects for a shared future for city dwellers - poor-non-poor, men-women, young-old, migrant-non-migrant. By defining the way in which cities should be planned and managed to best promote sustainable and equitable urbanization and integrating it with the national development agenda, this book has provided a road map that would create equal prospects for everyone to benefit from its prosperity.
Rita Afsar is Research Fellow (Hon), Faculty of Arts, School of Social Sciences, University of Western Australia. Mahabub Hossain was Advisor to Executive Director, Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), Dhaka, and distinguished professor and chair, Department of Economics and Social Sciences, BRAC University Mahabub Hossain was Advisor to Executive Director, Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), Dhaka, Bangladesh, and chairperson of BRAC University's Department of Economics and Social Sciences.
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* Foreword * Preface * Acknowledgements * List of Abreviations * List of Tables, figures, and boxes * Glossary * 1. Dhaka's Changing Landscape: Prospects for Economic Development, Social Change, and Shared Prosperity * 2. Rapid Urbanization and Population Changes in Dhaka City: The Demographic Dividend * 3. Migration and Rural-Urban Connectivity: The Need for Reconstructing New Theoretical Approaches * 4. Migration and Occupational Changes: Dreams and Relaities of Better Livelihoods * 5. Dynamics of Livelihoods, Income, and Proverty: The Scope for Shared Prosperity * 6. Quality of Life: Shared Modes of Basic Services and the Sustainable Development Goals * 7. Impact of Urbanization on Health and Education: Progress and Inter-generational Prospects for Shared Prosperity * 8. Migration, Modernization, and Social Change: An Enquiry into Migrants' Attitudinal Changes * 9. Better Lives, Better Incomes but Slip Prospects for Shared Prosperity * Bibliography * Appendices * Index * About the Authors
* Foreword * Preface * Acknowledgements * List of Abreviations * List of Tables, figures, and boxes * Glossary * 1. Dhaka's Changing Landscape: Prospects for Economic Development, Social Change, and Shared Prosperity * 2. Rapid Urbanization and Population Changes in Dhaka City: The Demographic Dividend * 3. Migration and Rural-Urban Connectivity: The Need for Reconstructing New Theoretical Approaches * 4. Migration and Occupational Changes: Dreams and Relaities of Better Livelihoods * 5. Dynamics of Livelihoods, Income, and Proverty: The Scope for Shared Prosperity * 6. Quality of Life: Shared Modes of Basic Services and the Sustainable Development Goals * 7. Impact of Urbanization on Health and Education: Progress and Inter-generational Prospects for Shared Prosperity * 8. Migration, Modernization, and Social Change: An Enquiry into Migrants' Attitudinal Changes * 9. Better Lives, Better Incomes but Slip Prospects for Shared Prosperity * Bibliography * Appendices * Index * About the Authors
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