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

• Superior document: Transforming Asia Series ; v.3
• Author: Booth, Anne.
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press,, 2019.; Ã2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Transforming Asia Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (318 pages)

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.