• ISBN13: 9789354794070
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Economics
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publication Date: December 11, 2024
• Pages: 270
• Original Price: INR 1250.0
• Language: English
• Edition: 842
• Item Weight: 470 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Development / Economic Development

India is undoubtedly urbanising, especially since 1991. However, many urban families are facing housing poverty and struggling to access safe drinking water, electricity, sanitation and other basic amenities. India’s Urban Housing and Poverty: Feasible and Sustainable Housing Development Interventions covers the overall situation of the institutional players in urban settlements and public policy changes with a focus on human settlement issues and the problem of a consistently degrading environment. It makes extensive use of relevant data on the concerned topics and analyses core issues at the macro level. It covers the history of housing development policies, as well as policies for the urban poor, since the 1950s. The book offers recommendations for sustainable and equitable urban growth, discussing institutional growth in the housing sector, operations in response to the housing needs and development governance. It stresses on allotting equal importance to the redevelopment of dilapidated stock and the development of new housing units with renewed efforts towards slum improvement and a rejuvenation of the cooperative housing movement.

Mahadeva, M.: - M. Mahadeva is Professor, Institute of Finance and International Management (IFIM), Bengaluru, India. He was a research faculty of Economics in the Centre for Economic Studies and Research and the Centre for Agricultural Development and Rural Transformation at the Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bengaluru. He served at the Planning Commission of India as the Chairman of the Sub-Committee (Twelfth Five Year Plan), Member of the Working Group (Twelfth Five Year Plan), Member of the Steering Committee (Twelfth Five Year Plan) and Member of the Mid-Term Appraisal (Eleventh Five Year Plan). He has both teaching and research experience of about two decades and academic administrative experience for over fifteen years.

Professor Mahadeva obtained all three of his degrees from the University of Mysore, including the PhD in Economics (1987-93) on the theme "Market and Economics". He was a visiting academic fellow in the University of Bristol, UK (December 2008 to April 2009); University of Toronto, Canada (October 2000 to January 2001); Institute for Housing and Urban Studies, (December 1997 to January 1998); Institute of Social Studies, The Netherlands (November to December 2010); and Maison Des Science De L' Homme, France (December 1998). He has earned five international fellowships, including the Commonwealth Academic Scholarship. He has published extensively in the areas of housing poverty and deprivations, housing market and housing development players, financial exclusion/inclusion policies, and human settlement issues of poor and vulnerable households in both urban and rural contexts.