TY  - BOOK
ED  - India.
ED  - United Nations Development Programme.
TI  - India urban poverty report, 2009
SN  - 9780198060253 (pbk.)
AV  - HV4139 .I62 2009
U1  - 339.460954 IND 23
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Urban poor
KW  - India
KW  - Statistics
KW  - Government policy
KW  - Poverty
KW  - Services for
KW  - Städtische Armut
KW  - stw
KW  - Armutspolitik
KW  - Armut
KW  - Stadt
KW  - Indien
N1  - Includes statistics; Includes bibliographical references; Economic development and urban poverty / S.R. Hashim -- The gender dimensions of urban poverty / Preet Rustagi, Sandip Sarkar, and Pinaki Joddar -- Poverty and migration : does moving help? / D.P. Singh -- The unorganized sector and urban poverty : issues of livelihood / Jeemol Unni -- Changing sectoral profile of the urban economy and implications for urban poverty / Dinesh Awasthi, S.P. Kashyap, and Jignasu Yagnik -- Urban microfinance in the context of urban poverty / Tara S. Nair -- The millennium development goals and the role of cities / Sneha Palnitkar -- Access to basic amenities and urban security: an interstate analysis with a focus on the social sustainability of cities / Amitabh Kundu -- The poor and morphology of cities / Neelima Risbud -- Urban land market and access of the poor / Darshini Mahadevia -- Basic services for the urban poor : innovative actions and interventions / R.V. Rama Rao -- Access of the urban poor to health and education services / Amulya Ratna Nanda -- Alleviating urban poverty : income growth, income distribution, or decentralization? / Om Prakash Mathur -- Elite capture and marginalization of the poor in participatory urban governance: a case of resident welfare associations in metro cities / Debolina Kundu -- Living rough, surviving city streets : a study of the homeless populations in Delhi, Chennai, Patna, and Madurai / Harsh Mander -- Urban informal sector : the need for bottom-up agenda of economic reforms-case studies of cycle rikshaws and street vendors in Delhi / Madhu Purnima Kishwar
N2  - Contributed articles; Urban India reports high incidence of poverty despite being hailed as a hub of growth and an instrument of globalization. Poverty figures for urban areas are higher compared to rural areas in a large number of states. This report looks at the process of globalization and development strategy in India to ask why poverty exists in urban areas and how the poor are being physically and economically absorbed in the system. It analyses the processes of urbanization, migration, changes in the structure of the economy, and the pattern of infrastructural investment with the aim of assessing their impact on the poor. Changes in urban governance, legal system, and the administrative structure have been reviewed to identify the problems faced by the poor and to focus on the systemic changes that need to be brought in. Thus it focuses on urbanization keeping poverty at the centre of analysis.
ER  -