Dhaka's Changing Landscape
Prospects for Economic Development, Social Change, and Shared Prosperity
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9780190121112
Publication date:
18/11/2019
Hardback
400 pages
216x140mm
Price: 1595.00 INR
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ISBN:
9780190121112
Publication date:
18/11/2019
Hardback
400 pages
Rita Afsar, Mahabub Hossain
Use of longitudinal data generated from three rounds of repeat surveys conducted in 1991, 1998 and 2010 of the same cross-sections of 600 slum and non-slum households randomly selected from four wards of Dhaka city,Examines the link between migration motivation and migration outcomes,Provides a systematic review of urban proverty,Analyses progress made in employment options and occupational mobility for cross-sections,Highlights the scope and conditions for income growth and equitable distribution; social and human capital development; quality of life; and changes in attitudes, aspiration and gender, and generational values and relations since the 1990s,Examines best practices and types of policies and governance framework necessary to turn Dhaka's demographic transition to sustained economic growth
Rights: World Rights
Rita Afsar, Mahabub Hossain
Description
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?
Rita Afsar, Research Fellow (Hon), Faculty of Arts, School of Social Sciences, University of Western Australia, and Authaor Mahabub Hossain, Advisor, Executive Director, Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), Dhaka, Bangladesh
Rita Afsar is Research Fellow (Hon), Faculty of Arts, School of Social Sciences, University of Western Australia. Mahabub Hossain was Advisor to Executive Director, Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), Dhaka, and distinguished professor and chair, Department of Economics and Social Sciences, BRAC University Mahabub Hossain was Advisor to Executive Director, Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), Dhaka, Bangladesh, and chairperson of BRAC University's Department of Economics and Social Sciences.
Rita Afsar, Mahabub Hossain
Table of contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Abreviations
List of Tables, figures, and boxes
Glossary
1. Dhaka's Changing Landscape: Prospects for Economic Development, Social Change, and Shared Prosperity
2. Rapid Urbanization and Population Changes in Dhaka City: The Demographic Dividend
3. Migration and Rural-Urban Connectivity: The Need for Reconstructing New Theoretical Approaches
4. Migration and Occupational Changes: Dreams and Relaities of Better Livelihoods
5. Dynamics of Livelihoods, Income, and Proverty: The Scope for Shared Prosperity
6. Quality of Life: Shared Modes of Basic Services and the Sustainable Development Goals
7. Impact of Urbanization on Health and Education: Progress and Inter-generational Prospects for Shared Prosperity
8. Migration, Modernization, and Social Change: An Enquiry into Migrants' Attitudinal Changes
9. Better Lives, Better Incomes but Slip Prospects for Shared Prosperity
Bibliography
Appendices
Index
About the Authors
Rita Afsar, Mahabub Hossain
Description
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?
Rita Afsar, Research Fellow (Hon), Faculty of Arts, School of Social Sciences, University of Western Australia, and Authaor Mahabub Hossain, Advisor, Executive Director, Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), Dhaka, Bangladesh
Rita Afsar is Research Fellow (Hon), Faculty of Arts, School of Social Sciences, University of Western Australia. Mahabub Hossain was Advisor to Executive Director, Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), Dhaka, and distinguished professor and chair, Department of Economics and Social Sciences, BRAC University Mahabub Hossain was Advisor to Executive Director, Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), Dhaka, Bangladesh, and chairperson of BRAC University's Department of Economics and Social Sciences.
Table of contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Abreviations
List of Tables, figures, and boxes
Glossary
1. Dhaka's Changing Landscape: Prospects for Economic Development, Social Change, and Shared Prosperity
2. Rapid Urbanization and Population Changes in Dhaka City: The Demographic Dividend
3. Migration and Rural-Urban Connectivity: The Need for Reconstructing New Theoretical Approaches
4. Migration and Occupational Changes: Dreams and Relaities of Better Livelihoods
5. Dynamics of Livelihoods, Income, and Proverty: The Scope for Shared Prosperity
6. Quality of Life: Shared Modes of Basic Services and the Sustainable Development Goals
7. Impact of Urbanization on Health and Education: Progress and Inter-generational Prospects for Shared Prosperity
8. Migration, Modernization, and Social Change: An Enquiry into Migrants' Attitudinal Changes
9. Better Lives, Better Incomes but Slip Prospects for Shared Prosperity
Bibliography
Appendices
Index
About the Authors
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