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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محفوظ في:
التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف الرئيسي: Booth, Anne, 1946- (مؤلف)
التنسيق: الكتروني كتاب الكتروني
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020
سلاسل:Transforming Asia.
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جدول المحتويات:
  • 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.