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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 20...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: AMSTERDAM : AMSTERDAM University PR, 2019.
Colección:Transforming Asia.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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