Internal Migration Urbanization and Poverty in Asia: Dynamics and Interrelationships 1. Patterns and Trends of Urbanization and Urban Growth in Asia 2. Examining the interdependencies between urbanization internal migration urban poverty and inequality: Evidence from Indonesia 3. Rural–urban migration urban poverty inequality and urbanization in the People’s Republic of China 4. Interdependencies of internal migration urbanization poverty and inequality: The case of urban India 5. Internal migration and poverty: A lesson based on panel data analysis from Indonesia 6. Poverty and inequality in urban India with special reference to West Bengal: An empirical study 7. Rural to urban migration and wage differentials in urban India 8. The labor market effects of skill biased technological change in Malaysia 9. The pattern of urban rural disparity in multidimensional poverty in China: 2000 2011 10. Distribution of urban economic growth in post reform India: An empirical assessment 11. Internal migration and employment in Bangladesh: An economic evaluation of rickshaw pulling in Dhaka city. This book is Open Access under a CC BY license. Asia’s recent demographic transitions and rural–urban structural transformations are extraordinary and involve complexities that require in depth study. The chapters within this volume examine those complexities using a range of traditional and nontraditional measures—such as multidimensional poverty gaps and polarization—to arrive at the conclusion that poverty is now an urban issue. This volume offers an essential resource for economic policy makers and students of development economics to understand the interrelationships between internal migration urbanization and poverty in Asia paving the way for the improved management of internal migration and disadvantaged and vulnerable populations. Kankesu Jayanthakumaran is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Wollongong Australia. His research has chiefly concentrated on trade facilitation and performance an area in which he has published 30 peer reviewed journal articles and five book chapters edited two books and authored one: Industrialization and Challenges in Asia published in 2016. Reetu Verma is a Senior Lecturer and one of the Heads of Students in the Faculty of Business at the University of Wollongong Australia. Reetu’s main areas of expertise are in the fields of economic growth and development student engagement and support statistics quantitative techniques and applied econometrics. Guanghua Wan is Director of the Institute of World Economy Fudan University People’s Republic of China. Previously he worked for the Asian Development Bank the United Nations and the University of Sydney. With a background in development economics and econometrics Dr. Wan is a multi award winning scholar on the Chinese economy and an expert on Asia with an outstanding publication record of more than 100 professional articles and a dozen books. Ed Wilson is an Associate Professor at the University of Wollongong Australia. A former president of the Economic Society of Australia New South Wales his research interests are in macroeconomic modelling empirically gauging the determinants of economic growth and productivity and the consequences of policies to reduce poverty and child labor in Asia.