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Economic development and urban poverty / S.R. Hashim -- The gender dimensions of urban poverty / Preet Rustagi, Sandip Sarkar, and Pinaki Joddar -- Poverty and migration : does moving help? / D.P. Singh -- The unorganized sector and urban poverty : issues of livelihood / Jeemol Unni -- Changing sectoral profile of the urban economy and implications for urban poverty / Dinesh Awasthi, S.P. Kashyap, and Jignasu Yagnik -- Urban microfinance in the context of urban poverty / Tara S. Nair -- The millennium development goals and the role of cities / Sneha Palnitkar -- Access to basic amenities and urban security: an interstate analysis with a focus on the social sustainability of cities / Amitabh Kundu -- The poor and morphology of cities / Neelima Risbud -- Urban land market and access of the poor / Darshini Mahadevia -- Basic services for the urban poor : innovative actions and interventions / R.V. Rama Rao -- Access of the urban poor to health and education services / Amulya Ratna Nanda -- Alleviating urban poverty : income growth, income distribution, or decentralization? / Om Prakash Mathur -- Elite capture and marginalization of the poor in participatory urban governance: a case of resident welfare associations in metro cities / Debolina Kundu -- Living rough, surviving city streets : a study of the homeless populations in Delhi, Chennai, Patna, and Madurai / Harsh Mander -- Urban informal sector : the need for bottom-up agenda of economic reforms-case studies of cycle rikshaws and street vendors in Delhi / Madhu Purnima Kishwar.

Contributed articles.