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The Asian 'poverty miracle' : impressive accomplishments or incomplete achievements

Wan, Guang Hua (contributor); Silber, Jacques (contributor) - 2016

Introduction / Jacques Silber and Guanghua Wan -- 1. An Asian poverty line? issues and options / Stephan Klasen -- 2. A … poverty line contingent on reference groups: implications for the extent of poverty in some Asian countries / Satya R …. Chakravarty, Nachiketa Chattopadhyay, and Jacques Silber -- 3. Concepts and measurement of vulnerability to poverty and other …

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Poverty targeting in Asia

Weiss, John (contributor) - 2005

1. Experiences with poverty targeting in Asia : an overview / John Weiss -- 2. Poverty targeting in India / Pradeep … Srivastava -- 3. Poverty targeting in Indonesia / Ari A. Perdana and John Maxwell -- 4. Poverty targeting in the People …'s Republic of China / Wang Sangui -- 5. Poverty targeting in Thailand / Peter Warr and Isra Sarntisart -- 6. Poverty targeting in …

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Urban poverty in China

Wu, Fulong (contributor) - 2010

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 …China's new urban poverty : an introduction -- Poverty incidence and determinants -- Poverty groups : livelihood and …

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Strategic challenges for the base of the pyramid

Vermeulen, Patrick A. M. - 2014

'What I like most about Strategic Challenges for the Base of the Pyramid is the authors' clear understanding of what we have already learned about the BoP domain and their subsequent focus on creating new knowledge. The chapters in this book provide important insights into several important...

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International handbook of urban policy : Volume 1, Contentious global issues

Geyer, Hermanus S. (contributor) - 2007

This first Handbook in a series of three original reference works looks at globally contentious urban policy issues from a wide variety of different angles and perspectives. Matters related to urban densification, population mobility, urban inequality and sustainability are analysed in a manner...

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Handbook on the economics of happiness

Bruni, Luigino (contributor); Porta, Pier Luigi (contributor) - 2007

This book is a welcome consolidation and extension of the recent expanding debates on happiness and economics. Happiness and economics, as a new field for research, is now of pivotal interest particularly to welfare economists and psychologists. This Handbook provides an unprecedented forum for...

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Towards a competitive, sustainable modern city

Kresl, Peter Karl (ed.) - 2020

Contents: Introduction -- PART I THE SUSTAINABLE CITY -- 1 Towards sustainable urban competitiveness? The role of organizing capacity and distributed leadership / Leo van den Berg and Luis Carvalho -- 2 The modern city and third places: new sources of sustainable entrepreneurs and...

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Innovation and the growth of cities

Ács, Zoltán J. - 2002

Machine generated contents note: 1 Technology and entrepreneurship 1 -- 2 Knowledge, innovation and firm size 24 -- 3 Local geographic spillovers 44 -- 4 Sectoral characteristics 63 -- 5 Innovation of entrepreneurial firms 74 -- 6 Capital structure, innovation and firm size 98 -- 7 Employment...

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Creative cities, cultural clusters and local economic development

Cooke, Philip N. (contributor); … - 2008

This book analyses the economic development of cities from the 'cultural economy' and 'creative industry' perspectives, examining and differentiating them as two related but distinct segments of contemporary city economies. The authors argue that although they are normally conflated, the first...

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Planning cities for the future : the successes and failures of urban economic strategies in Europe

Kresl, Peter Karl - 2007

1. The urban context and the need for economic-strategic planning -- 2. The literature on urban competitiveness and strategic-economic planning -- 3. The economic and geographic analysis of urban competitiveness -- 4. The ten cities and their planning at the outset of the 1990s -- 5. How these...

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