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Southeast Asian Development

Southeast Asian Development

McGregor, Andrew

Paperback

Series: Routledge Perspectives on Development

EconomicsGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0415381525
ISBN13: 9780415381529
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 10 2008
Pages: 268
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

Southeast Asia has long fascinated development practitioners and researchers for being one of the few regions of the world that has resisted global trends to become a successful developing region.

Divided into accessible thematic chapters, this book adopts a unique perspective of equitable development to outline the strengths and weaknesses of the transformations taking place in the Southeast Asian region. Focusing on four key themes: equality and inequality; political freedom and opportunity; empowerment and participation; and environmental sustainability, these concepts are used to explore Southeast Asian development and trace the impacts that the growing popularity of market-led and grassroots approaches are having upon economic, political and social processes. Whilst the diversity of the region is emphasized so are some of the homogenizing trends such as the concentration of wealth and services in urban areas and the subsequent migration of rural people into urban factories and squatter settlements. The ongoing commercialization and industrialization of rural agriculture as well as the expansion of non-farm income earning opportunities in rural spaces, and the alarming rates of environmental degradation which threaten health and livelihoods are also exposed.

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