"Nearly all urban data used for the purpose of economic analysis, urban policymaking, and investment decision-making are aggregated data. Urban systems, however, are heterogeneous and complex, which requires more nuanced responses. This handbook reprocesses NSS household-level schedules to...

Part 1. The Setting. Decentralized governance and development in India : An introduction -- Seeing PRIs in India and their History from a Gandhian perspective -- The evolution of devolution -- Part 2. Dimensions of Decentralization. Political decentralization : Role of political parties from...

Along with the fast growing economy, the term 'BRICs' was coined to represent the newly emerging countries of Brazil, Russia, India and China. The enhanced economy in these countries has largely improved people's lives; at the same time, it has also strongly influenced the transformation of...

Part I: Framworks -- PPE as an intellectual enterprise / Geoffrey Brennan and Geoffrey Sayre-McCord -- On models and their uses / James Johnson -- Complexity / Fred D'Agosino -- PPE in Marx's materialist conception of history / Vanessa Wills -- Feminist theory / Ann E. Cudd -- Part II:...