Chapter 1: A.A. Batabyal (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA), Y. Higano (University of Tsukuba, Japan), and P. Nijkamp (JADS, The Netherlands) Introduction to “Rural-urban dichotomies and spatial development in Asia.” -- Chapter 2: Yana Rodgers, (Rutgers University, USA) Domestic...

Part I. Introduction -- Chapter 1. Introduction to “Disease, Human Health, and Regional Growth and Development in Asia” -- Part II. South Asia -- Chapter 2. Food Consumption, Calorie Intake, and Undernourishment in India: The Recent Evidence on the Role of Welfare Schemes -- Chapter 3. The...

Chapter 1. Introduction to “The Creative Class Revisited: New Analytical Advances” -- Chapter 2. Sustained Economic Growth and Physical Capital Taxation in a Creative Region -- Chapter 3. Do Existing Theories Still Hold for the Creative Labor Market? -- Chapter 4. The Creative Class Jobs...

We have two objectives in this book. First, we bring together in one place, original research that sheds light on the myriad connections between disease, human health, and regional economic growth and development. Second, given the contemporary salience of Asia in world affairs, we concentrate...

Following this introductory chapter which comprises Part I of the book, there are eleven chapters and each of these chapters—written by an expert or by a team of experts — discusses a particular research question or questions about rural-urban dichotomies and spatial development in Asia. For...