Urbanization in Asia

1. Introduction
Kala S. Sridhar, Guanghua Wan

Part I. Rural-urban Linkages

2. Implementation of MGNREGA: A Study of Two Gram Panchayats in Jhalawar, Rajasthan
Moitri Dey

3. ‘Total Sanitation Campaign’ Intervention for a Semiurban Village Through ‘Public–People–Private’ Partnership
Manik N Dive, Anand B Rao

4. Making the Connection Between Informal Self-Employment and Temporary Migration: Lessons from the Cycle Rickshaw Sector
Ashima Sood

Part II. Urban Governance, Infrastructure and Service Delivery

5. Benchmarking Cities: Evidence from India
Kala Seetharam Sridhar, Nivedita Kashyap

6. Central and State Urban Infrastructure Programs in Karnataka: What Do We Learn?
Kala Seetharam Sridhar, A. Venugopala Reddy

7. Risk Allocation in Concession Agreements for PPP Road Projects in India
Debopam Roy, Satyanarayana Kalidindi, A. Soundararajan

8. Value of Travel Time Saved in Modal Shift from Bus to Metro Case Study: Rohini (West) Delhi Metro Station
Pawan Kumar

9. Hidden Cost in Public Infrastructure Project: A Case Study of Kolkata East–West Metro
Sutapa Das

10. Impact of Urban Policy Reform: A Case Study of the Informal Sector in Solid Waste Management in Delhi
Pooja Ravi

11. Estimating Economic Costs of Municipal Solid Waste Management: Using Contingent Valuation Method
J. Sacratees, G. Hari Govindaraj

12. A Study of Small And Micro Enterprise Regulatory Impediments in Fiji
Salvin Saneel Nand

Part III. Urbanization and Environment

13. Trends of Land-Use Change in India
Geetika Rathee

14. Urban form and Residential Energy Use in Bandung Indonesia
Sigit D. Arifwidodo

15. Urbanization and the Environment: An Asian Perspective
Guanghua Wan, Matthew Kahn

Keywords: Economics/Management Science, Development Economics, Public Finance & Economics, Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice, Environmental Economics, Regional/Spatial Science