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Southeast Asia beyond Crises and Traps

Economic Growth and Upgrading

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Written by area studies specialists whose assessment is informed by expert grasp of South East Asia’s complex economic, social and political conditions and historical realities
  • Thoroughly explores five core case studies in the region and examines lessons to be learnt from them
  • Starts with a methodological reflection on the measurement of emerging economies, provides a historical overview and outlines a clear research agenda

Part of the book series: Studies in Economic Transition (SET)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
  2. Southeast Asia: Beyond Crises and Traps

    • Khoo Boo Teik, Keiichi Tsunekawa
    Pages 1-32
  3. In Search of Continuous Improvement

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-165
    2. Towards a Southeast Asian Variety of Capitalism?

      • Veerayooth Kanchoochat
      Pages 277-295
  4. Back Matter

    Pages 297-309

About this book

This book examines five countries in South East Asia that are instructive case studies of how the region has had to negotiate pathways of development beyond crises and traps. At two ends of just one decade, 1997–2007, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam all had to weather the shocks of an East Asian financial crisis and a global financial crisis. Some economies might have buckled completely under those shocks and been condemned to long-term stagnation. Yet these five economies, part of the larger Asian region, emerged with continued if slower economic growth.

An important theme of this book is that their resilience has been partly derived from the pursuit of growth and competitiveness along less known or recommended pathways. The chapters of this book take a novel approach to South East Asia’s search for growth and improvement. They do not begin by evaluating how far macro-level performances would take a particular country towards high-incomestatus. Instead they provide original insights into actual cases of intermediate ways of achieving growth, upgrading and income improvement in non-privileged sectors. Such cases may hold more relevant lessons for the majority of developing countries than the experiences of highly developed economies.

Editors and Affiliations

  • National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo, Japan

    Boo Teik Khoo, Keiichi Tsunekawa, Motoko Kawano

About the editors

Khoo Boo Teik is Professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo.

Keiichi Tsunekawa is Senior Professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo.

Motoko Kawano is Assistant Professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Southeast Asia beyond Crises and Traps

  • Book Subtitle: Economic Growth and Upgrading

  • Editors: Boo Teik Khoo, Keiichi Tsunekawa, Motoko Kawano

  • Series Title: Studies in Economic Transition

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55038-1

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-55037-4Published: 28 September 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85550-9Published: 10 August 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-55038-1Published: 18 September 2017

  • Series ISSN: 2662-6675

  • Series E-ISSN: 2662-6683

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 309

  • Number of Illustrations: 28 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Asian Economics, Development Economics, Economic Growth

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Softcover Book USD 159.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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Hardcover Book USD 159.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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