| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 253 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of boxes; Preface; Acknowledgements; Acronyms, abbreviations and terms in Southeast Asian languages; 1 The shadows of success: a cautionary tale of Southeast Asian development; Setting the scene; Producing poverty and destitution in contexts of prosperity and growth; From poverty to well-being and human flourishing; Judging development; The structure of the book; A chasing of the wind?; Further reading; 2 Generating growth, sustaining growth, delivering inequality |
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Introduction: the growth of inequality and interest in inequalityWhy inequality matters; Patterns of unequal growth in Southeast Asia; Sources of inequality: the 'why' and 'how' questions; Conclusion; Further reading; 3 The produced poor: another world of poverty and development; Introduction: placing the produced poor; Recording, ignoring or creating? An excursion into the poverty data; The produced poor; Dispossession; Displacement; Casualization, informalization and precarity; Social protection; Conclusion; Further reading |
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4 The unreported and uncounted: tracking the living and lives of Southeast Asia's transnational migrantsIntroduction: placing migration; Determining the scale of movement in Southeast Asia; Migrant rights and wrongs in Singapore and Thailand; Conclusion: viewing the economy in the round; Further reading; 5 Building the neoliberal family: dislocated families, fragmented living, fractured societies?; Introduction; Problematizing the modern Asian household; The caring household? Caring for the 'left-behind'; Maintaining and developing relations across space |
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Caring or failing to care? Sustaining the neoliberal familyShaping the neoliberal family; Further reading; 6 The poverty of sustainable development in Southeast Asia: economic growth, the environment and people's lives; The environmentalism of the poor -- because they are (not) worth it; Development and sustainable development; Multiple paths of environmental transition; Neoliberal development and the environment; Cases of market-based environmental violence in Southeast Asia; The poverty of sustainable development; Further reading; 7 The politics of poverty and development: branch and root |
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The political lacunae of modernization and developmentA 'right' to development?; Dreams, aspirations and rights: the politics of poverty; Oil palm: a walk on the dark side?; Development projects and development subjects: the science of domination and the arts of resistance; From gifts to rights: the politics and Politics of development; Civil society, political society and the politics of development; Conclusion; Further reading; 8 More growth/less development?; Introduction: questioning success; The visible trap: wealth, health and social development; A better capitalism? |
| Summary |
Over the course of the last half century, the growth economies of Southeast Asia - Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam - have transformed themselves into middle income countries. This book looks at how the very success of these economies has bred new challenges, novel problems, and fresh tensions, including the fact that particular individuals, sectors and regions have been marginalised by these processes. Contributing to discussions of policy implications, the book melds endogenous and exogenous approaches to thinking about development paths, re-frames Asia's |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Economic development -- Social aspects -- Southeast Asia
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Poverty -- Southeast Asia
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
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Economic development -- Social aspects
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Poverty
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Pauvreté -- Asie du Sud-Est.
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Southeast Asia
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Zuidoost-Azië.
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Asie du Sud-Est -- Conditions économiques -- 1945- ...
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317414599 |
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1317414594 |
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9781315686257 |
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1315686252 |
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9781317414575 |
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1317414578 |
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9781317414582 |
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1317414586 |
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