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Author Knauder, Stefanie

Title Globalization, Urban Progress, Urban Problems, Rural Disadvantages : Evidence from Mozambique
Published Milton : Routledge, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (348 pages)
Series Routledge Revivals Ser
Routledge Revivals Ser
Contents Cover; Half Title; Dedication; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of maps and figures; List of tables; Preface and acknowledgements; List of abbreviations and explanation of terms; General information on Mozambique; PART I: INTRODUCTION AND THEORETICAL BASIS; 1 Areas of inquiry and methodology; 2 Urbanization and globalization; PART II: THE TWOFOLD GAP AND THE RURAL -- PERI-URBAN -URBAN CHANGES; 3 Socio-economic characteristics of the three investigated areas: poverty and relative prosperity; 4 Poverty and dissatisfaction -- job satisfaction; 5 Migration as a consequence of globalization
6 Housing in the two urban worlds and the neglected countryside7 Housing and services as problems; 8 Female household heads; 9 Urbanization and the decline of specific social interactions; 10 Satisfaction and depression in favourable and extreme adverse conditions; PART III: GLOBALIZATION AND POVERTY; 11 The root causes of Third World poverty in a globalizing world; 12 Aspects of an alternative development and an alternative globalization; Bibliography; Appendices
Appendix 1: Questionnaire on the housing problem, the infrastructure and the social facilities in the peri-urban areas of Maputo and BeiraAppendix 2: Demographic characteristics, level of urbanization, GDP, HDI, HPI of large Third World countries; Appendix 3: Additional tables; Appendix 4: Pedido de despensa (Permission to stay home from work on the day of the interview); Appendix 5: The complexity of necessary interventions for an 'alternative' development
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Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781351734875
1351734873