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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Booth, Anne.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2019.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Transforming Asia Ser.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • List of Tables
  • 1 Assessing Changes in Living Standards in Southeast Asia in the Twentieth and Early Twenty-first Centuries
  • 2 The Colonial Period: Population and Output Growth in Agricultural and Non-agricultural Sectors
  • 3 The Colonial Period: Measures of Welfare and Changing Living Standards
  • 4 Confronting the Challenges of Independence
  • 5 Estimating Poverty and Inequality : Country Estimates from the 1950s to the 1970s
  • 6 The 1980s and the 1990s: The Fast and the Slow in Southeast Asia
  • 7 Growth, Poverty and Distribution in the Early Twenty-first Century
  • 8 Government Policy Interventions
  • 9 What Have We Learned?
  • Bibliography
  • Index.