Market economy and urban change impacts in the developing world

This book explores and evaluates urban sector and development policies in the context of market enablement. By articulating the linkages between this neo-liberal development paradigm and the way different actors in the urban sector enact policy responses, the book provides an understanding of both t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zetter, Roger
Other Authors: Hamza, Mohammed
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Earthscan 2004
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Collection: O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Market enablement and the urban sector / Roger Zetter
  • Developmental welfare and political economy: reflections on policy-conditioned aid and strategic redirections of international housing and urban policies, 1960-2000 / Cedric Pugh
  • The state, foreign aid and the political economy of shelter in Egypt / Mohammed Hamza
  • Tackling urban poverty: principles and practice in project and programme design in Kenya / Carole Rakodi
  • Bridging the rural-urban divide: what can the urban learn from the rural? reflections on the case of Mexico / Gareth A. Jones
  • Between command and market economies: the changing roles of public and private housing sectors in transitional economies / Geoffrey Payne and Richard Grover
  • Urban land tenure in Brazil: from centralized state to market processes of housing land delivery / Flávio de Souza and Roger Zetter
  • Market enablement and the reconfiguration of urban structure in Colombia / Andrés Oritz-Gómez and Roger Zetter
  • Includes bibliographical references and index