The structure of urban poverty: urban poor in the hill city of Shillong
By: Mohapatra, A.C.
Contributor(s): Chakravarty, Nandini.
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ArticlePublisher: 2002Description: p.81-87.Subject(s): Poverty
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Indian Journal of Regional ScienceSummary: The main thrust of urbanisation in the new millennium will come from the developing countries - the developed world having nearly fully urbanised. The future urbanisation will be in the milieu of poverty rather than in prosperity that industrialisation ushered into the developed world during the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries. The UN Report on Urbanisation (1995) estimates that by 2025, the developing countries may have an urban population of 4.4 billion. This could happen through classical migrations, incorporation of new towns and cities, and the growth of population in the existing ones. Naturally enough, a large segment of these novo-urbanities would be the poor - which need urgent policy and actions from governments in the developing nations. This would also require a clear understanding of the characterisation and stucturing of poverty in these countries with particular reference to their economic, political and social diversities. Poverty is as much economic, as social, cultural or a political question. The present paper is based in a micro-study of the poor and their poverty (that is structural) in the hill city of Shillong, in the northeastern part of India that was carried out during 1994-95. - Reproduced.
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The main thrust of urbanisation in the new millennium will come from the developing countries - the developed world having nearly fully urbanised. The future urbanisation will be in the milieu of poverty rather than in prosperity that industrialisation ushered into the developed world during the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries. The UN Report on Urbanisation (1995) estimates that by 2025, the developing countries may have an urban population of 4.4 billion. This could happen through classical migrations, incorporation of new towns and cities, and the growth of population in the existing ones. Naturally enough, a large segment of these novo-urbanities would be the poor - which need urgent policy and actions from governments in the developing nations. This would also require a clear understanding of the characterisation and stucturing of poverty in these countries with particular reference to their economic, political and social diversities. Poverty is as much economic, as social, cultural or a political question. The present paper is based in a micro-study of the poor and their poverty (that is structural) in the hill city of Shillong, in the northeastern part of India that was carried out during 1994-95. - Reproduced.
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