Urban poverty in Asia / / Asian Development Bank

• Pubblicazione: Metro Manila, Philippines : , : Asian Development Bank, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (100 p.)
• Disciplina: 307.76095
• Soggetto topico: Urbanization - Asia; Urban poor - Asia
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 ; Tables1 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 View13 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 ; 22 Country-Specific Interventions for Urban Poverty ReductionFigures; 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 Transition13 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Urban poverty in Asia
• ISBN: 92-9254-664-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910465588003321
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