Internal Migration, Urbanization and Poverty in Asia: Dynamics and Interrelationships - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9811315361 ISBN 13 : 9789811315367

Editeur : Springer Verlag, Singapore, 2019

Synopsis

Analyses in detail the interrelationships between internal migration, urbanization and poverty in Asia
Brings together a wide range of expert opinions and research findings to provide a macro view of key issues related to these topics
Helps policymakers devise successful strategies for managing such issues

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À propos de l?auteur

Kankesu Jayanthakumaran is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Wollongong, Australia. His research has chiefly concentrated on 'trade facilitation and performance', an area in which he has published 30 peer-reviewed journal articles and five book chapters, edited two books, and authored one: Industrialization and Challenges in Asia, published in 2016. His current research focus is on integrative trade and logistics in land-locked countries.
Reetu Verma is a Senior Lecturer and one of the Heads of Students in the Faculty of Business at the University of Wollongong, Australia. Reetu's main areas of expertise are in the fields of economic growth and development, student engagement and support, statistics/quantitative techniques, and applied econometrics. Her current research interests are in economic growth and development in Asia with an emphasis on food security, poverty and inequality, migration and urbanization, and inclusive education.
Guanghua Wan is Director of the Institute of World Economy, Fudan University, People's Republic of China. Previously he worked for the Asian Development Bank, the United Nations and the University of Sydney. With a background in development economics and econometrics, Dr Wan is a multi-award-winning scholar on the Chinese economy and an expert on Asia, with an outstanding publication record of more than 100 professional articles and a dozen books, including two with Oxford University Press. An honorary professor of over ten top institutions in China, Dr Wan is among the top 8% of economists globally and top 4% in Asia according to the latest ranking of Research Papers in Economics (RePEc).
Ed Wilson is an Associate Professor at the University of Wollongong, Australia. A former president of the Economic Society of Australia, New South Wales, his research interests are in macroeconomic modelling, empirically gauging the determinants of economic growth and productivity, and the consequences of policies to reduce poverty and child labour in Asia.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer Verlag, Singapore
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9811315361
• ISBN 13: 9789811315367
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 379
• Éditeur: Jayanthakumaran Kankesu, Verma Reetu, Wan Guanghua, Wilson Edgar
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