In Indian cities many people live in marginal areas, with insecure housing, and inadequate provision of most public services, such as water and sanitation, electricity, garbage collection and policing.
An investigation of the institutional determinants of urban poverty, looking at the urban growth-poverty paradox from the perspectives of institutional change and the property rights and entitlement re-allocations affected by those changes.
Marginalization in Urban China: Comparative Perspectives
This book covers social inequalities in Chinese cities and provides comparative perspectives on inequality and social polarization, neoliberalization and the poor, the change of property rights, rural to urban migration and migrants' enclaves, deprivation and residential segregation, state social security and reemployment training programs.
Neighbourhood governance through joint-stock companies
Property rights redistribution and the impoverishment of landless peasants, A tale of two villages
Property rights, citizenship and the making of the urban poor
Market transition and the transformation of poverty neighbourhood in urban China
Urban villages under China's rapid urbanization: Unregulated assets and transitional neighbourhoods
Urban Poverty in China
Urban poverty is an emerging problem. This book explores the household and neighbourhood factors that lead to both the generation and continuance of urban poverty in China. It is argued that the urban Chinese are not a homogenous social group, but combine laid-off workers and rural migrants, resulting in stark contrasts between migrant and workers’ neighbourhoods and villages.
