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    Infrastructure Policy and Inequality

    Infrastructure Policy and Inequality by Cohen, Michael A.;

    Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics;

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    Product details:

    • Edition number 1
    • Publisher Routledge
    • Date of Publication 4 April 2024

    • ISBN 9781032655765
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages200 pages
    • Size 234x156 mm
    • Weight 453 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 1 Illustrations, black & white; 1 Line drawings, black & white; 1 Tables, black & white
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    Short description:

    This book reframes the purpose of infrastructure from being an input to economic growth to becoming a major instrument in reducing socio-economic inequalities in both industrialized and developing countries.

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    Long description:

    This book reframes the purpose of infrastructure from being an input to economic growth to becoming a major instrument in reducing socio-economic inequalities in both industrialized and developing countries.


    Drawing on global and national lessons of COVID-19 and extensive working experience in 55 countries, this book reviews infrastructure policies and performance over several decades and suggests that the ?underperformance? of infrastructure could be improved by more attention to users and the demand side, and thereby contribute to overcoming many obstacles facing low-income communities around the world. This book argues that growth is not a necessary condition for sustainability or social justice, and that both are undermined by structural inequalities which reduce the income and opportunities of urban households. More focus on user needs can substantially change the distribution of benefits and the quality of living conditions of low-income people. It provides a unique theoretical and on-the-ground critique of conventional infrastructure practices while illustrating to readers the many positive experiences around the world. More infrastructure is not enough; different and better is needed. This book reviews World Bank experience in launching a 30-year program to alleviate urban poverty through some 7,000 projects, showing that many significant policy changes have led to a big improvement in global urban policies adopted by national and local governments, yet have failed to significantly address and reduce intra-urban inequalities.


    The audience for this book includes academics, both faculty and advanced graduate students, while also a wider public interested in the prospects for international development.

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    Table of Contents:

    Part I: Defining the Problem of Structural Inequalities 1. Understanding Structural Inequalities at Different Scales Over Time Part II: Using Urban Infrastructure to Achieve Socio-Economic Goals 2. Urban Aid as a Social Experiment 3. The Early 1970s: Framing New Objectives for Development Assistance 4. Operationalizing the Urban Agenda: 1972-1982 5. Strengthening Policies and Institutions for Urban Management, 1982-1991 6. Cities and Economic Development: Shifting the Agenda in a World in Crisis: 1991 7. Using Infrastructure to Reduce Urban Poverty: What was Achieved?  Part III: Repurposing Infrastructure: The Search for Better, Not More 8. Infrastructure for Distribution 9. Developing New Objectives and Ways of Thinking 10. Learning from Experiments and Finding New Solutions: Looking Back to Going Forward


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