Will the urban world succeed in approximating the UN SDGs? It largely depends upon the trajectories of urbanization, natural resources, urban poverty in the Souths (India, Nigeria, China, Latin America). This book provides the best access to such worlds.
Paolo Perulli , ENI Enrico Mattei Foundation, Milan, Italy
The contributions in this volume demonstrate that realizing the economic benefits from urbanization and ensuring they are inclusive and sustainable requires careful attention to a wide range of issues. This volume will be a very useful resource for researchers and policymakers alike.
Rana Hasan , Asian Development Bank, Manila, Philippines
Urbanization in the Global South
This book examines the challenges of urbanization in the global south and the linkages between urbanization, economic development and urban poverty from the perspectives of cities in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
It focuses on various aspects of urbanization ranging from food security and public services like sanitation, water and electricity to the finances of cities and externalities associated with the urbanization process. The volume also highlights the importance of participatory urban governance for cities in India with comparative perspectives from other countries. It further focuses on the urbanization of poverty, livelihood in urban areas, overconsumption and nutrition and ecology. Based on primary data, the chapters in the volume review trends, opportunities, challenges, governance and strategies of several countries at different levels of urbanization, with several case studies from India.
This multidisciplinary volume will be of great interest to researchers and students of development studies, sociology, economics and urban planning and policy. It will also be useful for policymakers, think tanks and practitioners in the area of urbanization.
Kala S. Sridhar is a Professor at the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bengaluru, India. She was earlier with the Public Affairs Centre, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi, India, the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, India and the National Association of Home Builders, Washington, DC. She has been a visiting scholar at the World Institute of Development Economics Research of the UN multiple times. She has authored or edited nine books and has published several papers in international journals. She has been awarded a Fulbright Nehru fellowship at the University of California Los Angeles Luskin School of Public Affairs in 2021 and in 2022. She is in the top 10 percent of authors globally on SSRN. She holds a Ph.D. from the Ohio State University, USA.
George Mavrotas is a leading development economist with about 30 years of experience in international development. He is currently a Full Professor at the Institute of Development Policy of the University of Antwerp in Belgium. Previous appointments include Senior Fellow IFPRI, Chief Economist of the Global Development Network, Senior Research Fellow and Project Director at the World Institute of Development Economics Research of the UN, and academic posts in Oxford and Manchester Universities, UK, for many years. He is the author and co-author of more than 130 publications, including numerous papers in leading peer-reviewed journals and ten books. He holds a D.Phil. from Oxford University, UK.
Urbanization in the Global South
Perspectives and Challenges
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Contents
Kala S. Sridhar and George Mavrotas
Sachita Yadav
Adebayo Ogunniyi, George Mavrotas, Kehinde Olagunju, Mistura Rufai and Motunrayo Oyeyemi
Raveesha S. and M.G. Chandrakanth
Inderjeet Singh Sodhi
Kala S. Sridhar, S. Manasi and N. Latha
Ramakrishna Nallathiga and Kala S. Sridhar
Dhaarna and Varuvel Devadas
Ranjana Ray Chaudhuri, Prateek Sharma and Arun Kansal
S. Manasi and N. Latha
Shiva Raj Adhikari
Ashish V. Prabhakar
Haimanti Pakrashi
Kala S. Sridhar and K.C. Smitha
Zhumin Xu
Vahini Aravind
Cynthia Goytia
Map
Shiva Raj Adhikari is a Professor of Economics and head of the Central Department of Economics at Tribhuvan University, Nepal. He completed his Ph.D. from Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, in 2010 with financial support from WHO/TDR, Geneva. He has been leading a number of high-profile research projects funded by the WHO Alliance, WHO/TDR, Global Development Network and World Bank, among others. He has published more than 100 articles and book chapters on development issues, public policies and economic evaluations in national and international journals. His book entitled Economics of Urban Externalities (Springer) is a popular one. He has severed as a senior advisor for the National Planning Commission and a member of the Public Expenditure Review Commission of the Government of Nepal.
M.G. Chandrakanth did doctoral studies in Agricultural Economics at the University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, India, and post-doctoral studies in institutional economics of groundwater irrigation as a Ciriacy Wantrup fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. He published the book on water resource economics published by Springer in 2015. He also specializes in production economics, valuation of externalities and the role of sacred groves in natural resource conservation. He served as a Professor and Head of the Department of Agricultural Economics at the University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore. He retired as Director of the Institute for Social and Economic Change in 2020 and continues his research focus on water resource economics and issues concerning agricultural lands and markets.
