Neoliberal Policies and Inequality: Evidence from Asian City Regions

This book explores the discourse on urban and regional inequality within the framework of neoliberalism. It analyzes the widespread application of neoliberal policies in Asian city regions and identifies their influence on rising inequality. The book captures inequality through spatial and non-spatial policy narratives with empirical evidence from India, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand. The book uses analytics, narratives and simulation to unfold the opportunities and threats to urban regions that bear the impacts of globalization and neoliberal policies.

Lucid and topical, this book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of urban economics, urban and regional planning, urban studies, urban sociology, political economy, public policy, governance, development studies and Asian economy.

Arindam Biswas is an Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture and Planning, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, India.

Tetsuo Kidokoro is a Professor at the University of Tokyo, Japan.

Fumihiko Seta is currently an associate professor at the Department of Urban Engineering (DUE), School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo, Japan.