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Urban Risk and Well-being in Asian Megacities

Urban Risk and Well-being in Asian Megacities Urban Lower and Middle Classes in Bangkok, Shanghai, and Tokyo Rapid urbanisation presents challenges such as inequality, informalisation and diversified, social needs for emerging cities. Informal and formal institutions and their impact on urban development and well-being vary [...]

2025-07-01|Categories: Publications|Tags: , |

Living with Risk: Precarity & Bangkok’s Urban Poor

The informal economy in Bangkok, Thailand, offers upward mobility but is fraught with risk. For members of the urban lower class, residence and occupation are closely inter-connected. Shifts in priorities in housing, occupation and education as family circumstances change affect the way they deploy their [...]

2021-02-15|Categories: Publications|Tags: , |

The Asian Economy: Contemporary Issues and Challenges

The book is a key reading which provides a comprehensive and systematic overview of the contemporary Asian economy. The book focuses on the structural changes that are rapidly transforming the regional economic landscape in the 21st century. It highlights the concomitant challenges that have arisen, [...]

2020-02-08|Categories: news, Publications|Tags: , |
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