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Living Standards in Southeast Asia : Changes over the Long Twentieth Century, 1900-2015 /

Living Standards in Southeast Asia: Changes over the Long Twentieth Century, 1900-2015 examines changes in living standards across the ten countries of Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Thailand, Brunei, Myanmar, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos) from the early years of the 20th...

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Main Author: Booth, Anne, 1946- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020
Series:Transforming Asia.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Economic development > Southeast Asia > 21st century.
Economic development > Southeast Asia > 20th century.
Southeast Asia > Social conditions > 21st century.
Southeast Asia > Social conditions > 20th century.
Southeast Asia > Economic conditions > 21st century.
Southeast Asia > Economic conditions > 20th century.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Assessing changes in living standards in Southeast Asia in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries
  • The colonial period: population and output growth in agricultural and non-agricultural sectors
  • The colonial period: measures of welfare and changing living standards
  • Confronting the challenges of independence
  • Estimating poverty and inequality: country estimates from the 1950s to the 1970s
  • The 1980s and the 1990s: the fast and the slow in Southeast Asia
  • Growth, poverty and distribution in the early twenty-first century
  • Government policy interventions
  • What have we learned?
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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