Internal Migration, Urbanization and Poverty in Asia: Dynamics and Interrelationships / / edited by Kankesu Jayanthakumaran, Reetu Verma, Guanghua Wan, Edgar Wilson.

This book is Open Access under a CC BY license. Asia’s recent demographic transitions and rural–urban structural transformations are extraordinary and involve complexities that require in-depth study. The chapters within this volume examine those complexities using a range of traditional and nontrad...

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Place / Publishing House:Singapore : : Springer Nature Singapore :, Imprint: Springer,, 2019.
Year of Publication:2019
Edition:First edition, 2019.
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (XII, 367 pages, 76 illustrations, 47 illustrations in color.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Patterns and Trends of Urbanization and Urban Growth in Asia
  • 2. Examining the interdependencies between urbanization, internal migration, urban poverty and inequality: Evidence from Indonesia
  • 3. Rural–urban migration, urban poverty, inequality and urbanization in the People’s Republic of China
  • 4. Interdependencies of internal migration, urbanization, poverty and inequality: The case of urban India
  • 5. Internal migration and poverty: A lesson based on panel data analysis from Indonesia
  • 6. Poverty and inequality in urban India with special reference to West Bengal: An empirical study
  • 7. Rural to urban migration and wage differentials in urban India
  • 8. The labor market effects of skill-biased technological change in Malaysia
  • 9. The pattern of urban-rural disparity in multidimensional poverty in China: 2000-2011
  • 10. Distribution of urban economic growth in post-reform India: An empirical assessment
  • 11. Internal migration and employment in Bangladesh: An economic evaluation of rickshaw pulling in Dhaka city.