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Internal Migration, Urbanization and Poverty in Asia: Dynamics and Interrelationships

Editors:

  1. Kankesu Jayanthakumaran

    1. School of Accounting, Economics & Finance, Faculty of Business, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia

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  2. Reetu Verma

    1. School of Accounting, Economics and Finance, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia

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  3. Guanghua Wan

    1. Institute of World Economy, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

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  4. Edgar Wilson

    1. School of Accounting, Economics and Finance, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia

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  • Analyses in detail the interrelationships between internal migration, urbanization and poverty in Asia

  • Brings together a wide range of expert opinions and research findings to provide a macro view of key issues related to these topics

  • Helps policymakers devise successful strategies for managing such issues

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Kankesu Jayanthakumaran, Reetu Verma, Guanghua Wan, Edgar Wilson
    Pages 1-10Open Access

  3. Correction to: Internal Migration, Urbanization, and Poverty in Asia: Dynamics and Interrelationships

    • Kankesu Jayanthakumaran, Reetu Verma, Guanghua Wan, Edgar Wilson
    Pages C1-C1Open Access

  4. The Dynamic Interplay of Internal Migration, Urbanization, and Poverty

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    5. Interdependencies of Internal Migration, Urbanization, Poverty, and Inequality: The Case of Urban India

      • Edgar Wilson, Kankesu Jayanthakumaran, Reetu Verma
      Pages 109-131Open Access

  5. Migration, Urbanization, and Poverty Alleviation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 133-133
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    2. Internal Migration and Poverty: A Lesson Based on Panel Data Analysis from Indonesia

      • Endang Sugiyarto, Priya Deshingkar, Andy McKay
      Pages 135-162Open Access

    3. Poverty and Inequality in Urban India with Special Reference to West Bengal: An Empirical Study

      • Nandini Mukherjee, Biswajit Chatterjee
      Pages 163-187Open Access

    5. The Labor Market Effects of Skill-Biased Technological Change in Malaysia

      • Mohamed A. Marouani, Björn Nilsson
      Pages 219-264Open Access

  6. Polarization and Poverty Gaps

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 265-265
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  7. Back Matter

    Pages 361-367
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About this book

This book is Open Access under a CC BY license.

This volume offers an essential resource for economic policymakers as well as students of development economics focusing on the interrelationships of migration, urbanization and poverty in Asia. The continent’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 non-traditional measures, such as multidimensional poverty, gaps and polarization, to arrive at the conclusion that poverty is now an urban issue.

In short, the book will help students of development economics and policymakers understand the interrelationships between internal migration, urbanization and poverty, paving the way for the improved management of internal migration and disadvantaged and vulnerable populations.


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Keywords

  • Internal migration, urbanization and poverty in Asia
  • Poverty as an urban issue
  • Poverty measures in Asia
  • Rural-urban migration in Asia
  • Internal migration and employment in Asia
  • Urban economic growth
  • Income polarization in Asia
  • Open access
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Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Accounting, Economics & Finance, Faculty of Business, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia

    Kankesu Jayanthakumaran

  • School of Accounting, Economics and Finance, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia

    Reetu Verma, Edgar Wilson

  • Institute of World Economy, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

    Guanghua Wan

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About the editors

Kankesu Jayanthakumaran is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Wollongong, Australia. His research has chiefly concentrated on 'trade facilitation and performance', an area in which he has published 30 peer-reviewed journal articles and five book chapters, edited two books, and authored one: Industrialization and Challenges in Asia, published in 2016. His current research focus is on integrative trade and logistics in land-locked countries.

Reetu Verma is a Senior Lecturer and one of the Heads of Students in the Faculty of Business at the University of Wollongong, Australia. Reetu’s main areas of expertise are in the fields of economic growth and development, student engagement and support, statistics/quantitative techniques, and applied econometrics. Her current research interests are in economic growth and development in Asia with an emphasis on food security, poverty and inequality, migration and urbanization, and inclusive education.

Guanghua Wan is Director of the Institute of World Economy, Fudan University, People’s Republic of China. Previously he worked for the Asian Development Bank, the United Nations and the University of Sydney. With a background in development economics and econometrics, Dr Wan is a multi-award-winning scholar on the Chinese economy and an expert on Asia, with an outstanding publication record of more than 100 professional articles and a dozen books, including two with Oxford University Press. An honorary professor of over ten top institutions in China, Dr Wan is among the top 8% of economists globally and top 4% in Asia according to the latest ranking of Research Papers in Economics (RePEc). 

Ed Wilson is an Associate Professor at the University of Wollongong, Australia. A former president of the Economic Society of Australia, New South Wales, his research interests are in macroeconomic modelling, empirically gauging the determinants of economic growth and productivity, and the consequences of policies to reduce poverty and child labour in Asia.




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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Internal Migration, Urbanization and Poverty in Asia: Dynamics and Interrelationships

  • Editors: Kankesu Jayanthakumaran, Reetu Verma, Guanghua Wan, Edgar Wilson

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1537-4

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Asian Development Bank 2019

  • License: CC BY-NC IGO

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-1536-7Published: 30 July 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-1537-4Published: 18 July 2019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 367

  • Number of Illustrations: 29 b/w illustrations, 47 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Development Economics, Economic Policy, Asian Economics

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