This book is Open Access under a CC BY license. This volume offers an essential resource for
economic policymakers as well as students of development economics focusing on the
interrelationships of migration urbanization and poverty in Asia. The continent's recent
demographic transitions and rural-urban structural transformations are extraordinary and
involve complexities that require in-depth study. The chapters within this volume examine those
complexities using a range of traditional and non-traditional measures such as
multidimensional poverty gaps and polarization to arrive at the conclusion that poverty is
now an urban issue. In short the book will help students of development economics and
policymakers understand the interrelationships between internal migration urbanization and
poverty paving the way for the improved management of internal migration and disadvantaged and
vulnerable populations.
