Smart cities and the poor : towards an agenda for inclusive urbanization in India / Alok Kumar Mishra.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mishra, Alok Kumar, author.

Contributor:

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urbanization--India.

Urbanization.

Smart cities--India.

Smart cities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 268 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

Towards an agenda for inclusive urbanization in India

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.

Biography/History:

Alok Kumar Mishra is Professor of economics at the School of Economics, University of Hyderabad, an Institution of Eminence. He has been the director of the Land, Housing, Transport, and Urban Economics, HUDCO Chair, and several other programmes. He was awarded Baden-W|rttemberg Fellowship Award at South Asia Institute (SAI), Heidelberg University, Germany, in 2014, and Chancellor's Award in 2016 for contributing to teaching and research at the University of Hyderabad. He has published more than 50 peer-reviewed research papers in both International and National journals of repute and authored four books. He has guided 17 MPhil scholars, 7 PhD, and 20 Master's dissertations to date. Dr. Mishra's work experiences include the following: Research Officer, National Institute of Bank Management, Pune; Manager of Quant Finance, Financial Strategic Division, Shinsei Bank, Tokyo; Manager of Investment Research, Evalueserve.com Private Limited; and Assistant Vice President, Bank of New York, Mellon. He holds an MA degree in Economics, an MPhil in Monetary Economics, and a PhD in Financial Economics from the University of Hyderabad, India. His current research areas include developmental finance, financial stability, financial markets, financial inclusion, land, housing, urban and transport economics, macroeconomic policies, and applied econometrics.

Contents:

India's Urban Missions: Addressing the Challenges of Inclusive Urbanisation

Economic Perspective on Inclusive Urbanisation: Cities, Rural-Urban Migration, Slums and Urban Poverty

Challenges of Affordable Housing: Reform Strategy to Make Urban Planning Inclusive

Financing Urban Poverty Alleviation through Inclusive City Reforms

Urban Participatory Governance: Including the Urban Poor in Public Service Delivery

Policy Issues in Inclusive Urbanisation: An Empirical Study of Select Cities in Telangana State

An Agenda for Slum-free and Poverty-free Cities in India.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 23, 2024).

Other Format:

Print version: Mishra, Alok Kumar. Smart cities and the poor

ISBN:

9781003452171

1003452175

9781000985795

1000985792

9781000985856

1000985857

Publisher Number:

40032120310

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.