Rural–Urban Dichotomies and Spatial Development in Asia

Amitrajeet A. Batabyal is Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York, USA. He conducts research in regional economics, natural resource and environmental economics, and international trade theory. He has published over 700 journal articles, books, book chapters, and book reviews in these and other areas in the social sciences.Yoshiro Higano is Emeritus Professor in the University of Tsukuba in Tsukuba Science City, Japan. He has and continues to conduct research on a variety of topics in regional science and he presently serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science.Peter Nijkamp is affiliated with Alexandru Ioan Cuza University in Iasi, Romania, A. Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland, and Open University in Heerlen, The Netherlands. He conducts research in regional science, transportation, and urban economics. In a long career, he has published over 70 books and 800 journal articles. He is a recipient of the Spinoza Prize in the Netherlands.

• Chapter 1: A.A. Batabyal (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA), Y. Higano (University  of Tsukuba, Japan), and P. Nijkamp (JADS, The Netherlands) Introduction to “Rural-urban dichotomies and spatial development in Asia.”.- Chapter 2: Yana Rodgers, (Rutgers University, USA) Domestic violence in Nepal: Rural-urban differences and spatial effects.- Chapter 3: Kenji Kondoh (Chukyo University, Japan) To be determined (TBD).- Chapter 4: James Scambary (Australian National University, Australia) Socio-economic configurations of urban spaces in Dili, East Timor.-  Chapter 5: Allen Yang (New School for Social Research, USA) Rural-urban dimensions of public good provision in China.- Chapter 6: Kiyoshi Yonemoto (Takasaki Daigaku, Japan) Overpopulation in large Japanese cities and rural deterioration.- Chapter 7: Abdul Shaban (Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India) Rural-urban divide in the provision of bank credit and its implications for development in India.- Chapter 8: Tohru Naito (Doshisha University, Japan) TBD.- Chapter 9: Takahiro Akita (Rikkyo University, Japan) Urban and rural dimensions of the role of education on inequality in Asia.- Chapter 10: Budy Resosudarmo (Australian National University, Australia) The causes and the effects of rural-urban migration in Indonesia.- Chapter 11: Soumyatanu Mukherjee (Southamption Business School, UK) Dichotomies within the urban sector and between the formal and the informal sectors in India.- Chapter 12: Debashis Acharya (University of Hyderabad, India) TBD.