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1 online resource |
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Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables, Figures, and Boxes -- Acknowledgment -- About the Author -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Nature and Dimensions of Urban Poverty -- Moving beyond the Income-Consumption Poverty: Inequalities, Shelter, Services, and Livelihoods -- Who Are the Urban Poor-Women, Children, Youth, Minority Groups? -- Poverty and City Size -- Exploring the Link among Urbanization, Income (GDP), and Urban Poverty -- Public Policy Responses to Urban Poverty: Selected Asian Economies -- Asia's Urban Poverty and What it May Mean for the People's Republic of China and ADB -- Annex Tables -- Bibliography -- Tables -- 1 Tracking Poverty: Asia and the Developing World -- 2 Asia: Subregional Shares of the Poor -- 3 Proportions of the Poor, Rural and Urban -- 4 Numbers of the Poor, Rural and Urban -- 5 Is Asia Entering into the "Urbanization of Poverty" Trap? -- 6 The 2.15/day Urban Poverty Estimate -- 7 Urban Poverty Assessment-National Level Poverty Lines -- 8 Rural and Urban Poverty Gap Ratios and Gini Indices: People's Republic of China, India, and Indonesia -- 9 Informal Settlements Population in Asia -- 10 Economic Impact of Poor Sanitation -- 11 Working Poverty: World and Asian Regions, 2002 and 2012 -- 12 Urbanization, Gross Domestic Product, and Urban Poverty: A Synoptic View -- 13 Urbanization and Urban Poverty -- 14 Gross Domestic Product and Urban Poverty -- 15 People's Republic of China's Urban Poverty Line, Size of Poor Population, and Absolute Rate of Poverty, 1998-2007 -- 16 Population in Informal settlements in the People's Republic of China -- 17 Headcount Rates of Povertya, 1991-1992 to 2010 -- 18 Number and Percentage of the Poor, India -- 19 Urban Poverty in Pakistan -- 20 Poverty Estimates in Cambodia, 2009 -- 21 Poverty Rates and the Poverty Gap, Viet Nam |
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22 Country-Specific Interventions for Urban Poverty Reduction -- Figures -- 1 Poverty-Population Trends -- 2 City-Level Gini Coefficients: Asian Cities -- 3 Per Capita Income and Urbanization Levels Across Asian Countries, 2011 -- 4 Urbanization and Urban Poverty: Selected Asian Countries -- 5 Gross Domestic Product and Urban Poverty: Selected Asian Countries -- 6 People's Republic of China's Urban Transition -- 7 Bangladesh's Urban Transition -- 8 India's Urban Transition -- 9 Pakistan's Urban Transition -- 10 Cambodia's Urban-Rural Population Growth Trends -- 11 Indonesia's Urban Transition -- 12 Philippines's Urban Transition -- 13 Viet Nam's Urban Transition -- Boxes -- 1 Measuring Poverty -- 2 Urbanization of Global Poverty -- 3 National Urban Poverty Lines -- 4 What is an Informal Settlement? -- 5 Definition of Improved and Unimproved Sanitation and Water Supply -- 6 Economic impacts of inadequate sanitation in India by categories, 2006 -- 7 Economic Importance of Sanitation -- 8 Rights of the Child -- 9 The Global Rise of Youth Unemployment -- 10 Private Sector's Housing Involvement in Manila's Informal Settlement Communities -- Appendix Tables -- 1 Aggregate Poverty: Regional Aggregations 1990, 2008, and 2010 -- 2 Aggregate Poverty: Regional Aggregations -- 3 Urban and rural poverty measures using a poverty line of 1.08/day: Regions and the World -- 4 Proportion of Population below the Overall, Rural and Urban Poverty Line: Asian Economies -- 5 Absolute Number of Poor: Overall, Rural and Urban -- 6 Rural and Urban Poverty Gap Ratios and Gini Indices: People's Republic of China, India, and Indonesia -- 7 Slum population Some Asian countries: 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2007, 2009 -- 8 Distribution of households by type of residence: Some Asian countries: 2000-2005 |
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9 Progress on Sanitation and Drinking Water: Urban Asia: Economy Estimates, 2000-2010 -- 10 Education and Health Attainment Levels: Asian Economies, 2010 -- 11 Government Expenditures on Education and Health: Asian Economies, 2011 -- 12 Social Protection and Labor Rating and Government Expenditure on Social Security and Welfare: Asian Economies -- 13 Status of Employment: World and Asian Regions, 2002 and 2012 -- 14 Population by Age Groups: Asia and Asian regions, 2000 and 2010 -- 15 Youth (15-24) Unemployment Rate: World and Asian Regions, 2002 and 2012 -- 16 Urbanization and Per Capita Gross Domestic Product: Asian Economies, 2011 -- 17 Sanitation-Country Results -- 18 Water-Country Results |
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Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Urbanization -- Asia
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Urban poor -- Asia
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Urban poor.
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Urbanization.
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Asia.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9292546643 |
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9789292546649 |
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