1. Patterns and Trends of Urbanization and Urban Growth in Asia -- 2. Examining the interdependencies between urbanization, internal migration, urban poverty and inequality: Evidence from Indonesia -- 3. Rural–urban migration, urban poverty, inequality and urbanization in the People’s...

This book provides a much-needed review of Asia’s economic growth and its challenges in the context of post-war industrialization. In the early 1990s, the World Bank (1993) recognized eight high-performing Asian economies (HPAEs) (Japan, the Asian tigers, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand) and...