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Dhaka's Changing Landscape - Prospects for Economic Development, Social Change, and Shared Prosperity (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,923
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Dhaka's Changing Landscape - Prospects for Economic Development, Social Change, and Shared Prosperity (Hardcover): Rita...

Dhaka's Changing Landscape - Prospects for Economic Development, Social Change, and Shared Prosperity (Hardcover)

Rita Afsar, Mahabub Hossain

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The book is about residents of Dhaka: migrant and non-migrant, poor and non-poor, men and women, young and old. It is about how they have experienced the city's rapid transition for the two decades between 1991 and 2010 in terms of quality of life and livelihoods, and their prospects for a shared future. It is not so common to come across urban studies based on longitudinal data largely due to the high mobility of urban households. Over the 20-year period, the city's population more than doubled and reached double digit figures at 15 million. At the same time, its contribution to the national economy almost trebled from 13 per cent to 36 per cent. An unmistakable trend of economic growth is evidenced along with the rapid decline of urban poverty and a downward trend in inequality in the country during the same reference period. At the other end of the spectrum are the environmental challenges in the context of high density and Dhaka's worst livability ranking. The book answers some of the doubts generated by these contradictory signals of rapid urbanization: is the poorer segment of urban population that migrates with dreams for better lives and livelihoods benefitting from positive economic trends? Are these benefits sustainable in the long run? Have these benefits brought qualitative changes creating scope for this group to have a stake in the city's growing prosperity like their non-poor counterparts?

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Imprint: OUP India
Country of origin: India
Release date: 2021
Authors: Rita Afsar (Research Fellow (Hon)) • Mahabub Hossain (Advisor)
Dimensions: 225 x 147 x 35mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-012111-2
Categories: Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Development economics
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Urban communities
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Homelessness
Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Labour economics > General
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LSN: 0-19-012111-4
Barcode: 9780190121112

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