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Living standards in Southeast Asia : changes over the long twentieth century, 1900-2015 / Anne Booth.

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 per...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Booth, Anne, 1946- (Author)
Format:	Ebook
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2019]
Series:	Transforming Asia.
Subjects:	Economic development > Southeast Asia > 20th century. Economic development > Southeast Asia > 21st century. Southeast Asia > Economic conditions > 20th century. Southeast Asia > Economic conditions > 21st century. Southeast Asia > Social conditions > 20th century. Southeast Asia > Social conditions > 21st century.
Online Access:	JSTOR Open Access Access via Directory of Open Access Books

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.

Living standards in Southeast Asia : changes over the long twentieth century, 1900-2015 / Anne Booth.

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