Southeast Asia Economy
Southeast Asia
The growth economies of Southeast Asia are presented by the World Bank and others as exemplars of development - 'miracle' economies to be emulated. How did the region attain such status? Are the 'other' countries of Southeast Asia able to achieve such a rapid growth?
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Banking Reform in Southeast Asia
This book empirically examines banking reform in the economies of Southeast Asia as they sought to adapt to major developments in the global economic system over the past three decades, including the globalisation of finance, the debt crisis of the 1980s and the 1997-1998 Asian f
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Sex Work in Southeast Asia
Southeast Asian sex workers are stereotypically understood as passive victims of the political economy, and submissive to western men. The advent of HIV/AIDS only compounds this imagem, as sex workers come to represent the victims of, and vectors for, a deadly virus.
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Rise of the Corporate Economy in Southeast Asia
The Rise of the Corporate Economy in Southeast Asia surveys the growth of large corporations in Southeast Asia, focusing in particular on corporate organization, methods of finance, the business environment and corporate governance.
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Developmentalism and Dependency in Southeast Asia
The economic dynamism of Southeast Asia's tiger economies sparked a widespread interest in their industrial policies. Prior to the Asian crisis of 1997, talk of an 'Asian model' of capitalism, distinct from the prevailing Anglo-American norm, abounded.
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South East Asia
Southeast Asia is going through tremendous changes economically. The market-oriented economies of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand have been showing robust growth since the 1960s.
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