Arup Mitra

Urban Headway and Upward Mobility in India

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Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 164mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9781108496360
• ISBN-10: 1108496369
• Artikelnr.: 59258682

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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.