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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Booth, Anne, 1946- author.

Series:

Transforming Asia.

Transforming Asia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic development--Southeast Asia--21st century.

Economic development.

Economic development--Southeast Asia--20th century.

Southeast Asia--Social conditions--21st century.

Southeast Asia.

Southeast Asia--Social conditions--20th century.

Southeast Asia--Economic conditions--21st century.

Southeast Asia--Economic conditions--20th century.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020

Language Note:

English.

Summary:

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 century to the early 21st century. It covers both the last decades of the colonial period, the transition to independence and the decades from 1960 to the 2010s. The study uses a range of monetary and non-monetary indicators to assess how living standards have changed over time. It examines the outcomes in the context of debates about economic growth, inequality and poverty alleviation which began in the 1960s and 1970s, and continue to the present.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-003-69899-9

9781003698999

OCLC:

1178720924