Research Catalog

Title

Urban poverty in India : issues and policies / edited by M.D. Asthana, Sabir Ali.

Publication

New Delhi : Uppal Pub. House, 2004.

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Additional Authors

• Asthana, M. D.
• Ali, Sabir.
• Council for Social Development (India)

Description

x, 496 pages : maps; 24 cm

Summary

Contributed articles compiled from Social Change, a quarterly journal brought out by Council for Social Development; special issue on Urban poverty in India vol. 30 numbers 1-2, March-June, 2000.

Uniform Title

Social change.

Subject

• Urban poor > Government policy > India

Note

• "Under the auspices of Council for Social Development, New Delhi."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 486-487) and index.

Contents

• Urban poverty in India / M.D. Asthana, Sabir Ali -- Urban poverty in India : issues and perspectives in development / Amitabh Kundu -- Urban poverty : issues, policies, and actions / T.M. Vinod Kumar, Gayatri -- Urban poverty and vulnerability in India : a social policy perspective / Susan Loughhead, Onkar Mittal -- Economic reforms and urban poverty : a situational analysis / N. Sridharan, Vinita Yadav -- Poverty, rural & urban at the turn of the century : facets, issues & policy perspectives / Rajiv Balakrishnan -- Why women stay poor : an examination of urban poverty in India / Koumari Mitra, Gail R. Pool -- Women and sanitation : the urban reality experience of government programmes, NGOs and CBOs / Renu Khosla -- Urban poor women : coping with poverty and ill-health in slums of Delhi / Koushambhi Basu, Salil Basu -- Behind the city's veil : women, poverty & HIV/AIDS in India / Koumari Mitra -- Mobilizing women's communities in urban low income settlements / Renu Khosla --
• Improving access of the poor to the serviced urban land in India / J.H. Ansari.

ISBN

8176580228

LCCN

2003322558

OCLC

• ocm54530144
• SCSB-5293332

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries