Urban Futures: Economic growth and poverty reduction (Urban Management Series) - Softcover

Hamdi, Nabeel

9781853395994: Urban Futures: Economic growth and poverty reduction (Urban Management Series)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853395994 ISBN 13: 9781853395994

Publisher: Practical Action Publishing, 2005

Poverty and economic growth are intrinsically related but are not always synonymous. Human wellbeing is as important to economic growth as growth is to wellbeing. Poverty is multi-dimensional, encompassing both income and non-income related factors. Mobility, aspiration, dignity, respect, knowledge, information and savvy feature importantly in our understanding of the dynamics of poverty. This book brings together a collection of essays from around the world on urban development and poverty. The book reviews current international research in respect to some of the major themes that contribute to improving the equity and efficiency of urban systems. It bridges the need for a strong theoretical understanding of the issues with the demand for an equal understanding of practical application. Importantly, it explores and sets out methodologies for understanding qualitatively the dynamics of poverty and urban development.Organized into three parts, the book adopts as its principal theme poverty and the eradication of extreme poverty. Part 1: The Dynamics of Poverty and Urban Poverty Research, offers a framework for understanding poverty and a methodology for research. It identifies a range of broadly based, non-country specific themes in respect to the processes of urbanization, urban poverty and child poverty. Part 2: The Dynamics of Urban Systems, includes a selection of country specific essays each focused on an aspect of urban development and its relation to poverty. Each chapter offers first a theoretical overview in respect to its theme topic (shelter, land, partnership, migration), then explored in practice through case. Part 3: Urban Futures, reviews the principal themes emerging from the chapters and offers a basis for future work.Each part includes an introductory piece from a southern NGO in response to the question: "What kind of research would help you most in pursuit of your cause." In this way this book contributes to the process of ensuring that international academic research remains grounded and practical."

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What kinds of research into poverty are most helpful to those trying to deal with key issues in poverty reduction in an urban setting: topics like shelter, land tenure, partnership and migration? Through country case studies the contributors to Urban Futures explore what works, and discuss the issues and principles of different aspects of urban development and in relation to poverty. Overall the book offers a framework for understanding poverty, and a methodology for research, that will help all those working towards the eradication of extreme poverty in the context of projected urban demographic growth.

Review:

"This edited volume contains well-written papers and research project reports on issues related to economic growth and poverty reduction efforts in the cities of developing countries. Written by leading researchers in urban growth and development, these papers and reports are organized in two parts: the first deals with the dynamics of poverty and urban poverty research while the second addresses that of urban systems. In addition, this work gives an extensive agenda for future research in these areas. It is an excellent handbook for acadmeic researchers and policy makers interested in finding out what approaches to urban growth and poverty alleviation have and have not worked. This volume will also be valuable reading for students, graduate and undergraduate, study economic development in general and urban development in particular. The clarity of exposition and minimal use of technical jargon facilitate reading. Research project reports are more qualitative in nature, relying less on quantitative methods. Summing Up: Higly recommended. Public, academic, and professional library collections."--M. Q. Dao, Eastern Illinois University "CHOICE "

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