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Living Standards in Southeast Asia: Changes over the Long Twentieth Century, 1900-2015 examines changes in living standards across the ten countries of Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Thailand, Brunei, Myanmar, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos) from the early years of the 20th century to the early 21st century. It covers both the last decades of the colonial period, the transition to independence and the decades from 1960 to the 2010s. The study uses a range of monetary and non-monetary indicators to assess how living standards have changed over time. It examines the outcomes in the context of debates about economic growth, inequality and poverty alleviation which began in the 1960s and 1970s, and continue to the present.
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This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND license. This book addresses the issue of how a country, which was incorporated into the world economy as a periphery, could make a transition to the emerging state, capable of undertaking the task of economic development and industrialization. It offers historical and contemporary case studies of transition, as well as the international background under which such a transition was successfully made (or delayed), by combining the approaches of economic history and development economics. Its aim is to identify relevant historical contexts, that is, the ‘initial conditions’ and internal and external forces which governed the transition. It also aims to understand what current low-income developing countries require for their transition. Three economic driving forces for the transition are identified. They are: (1) labor-intensive industrialization, which offers ample employment opportunities for labor force; (2) international trade, which facilitates efficient international division of labor; and (3) agricultural development, which improves food security by increasing supply of staple foods. The book presents a bold account of each driver for the transition.
Economics --- Management science --- Economic history --- Development economics --- Asia—Economic conditions --- China—History --- Asia—History --- Southeast Asia—History
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Religion and Politics: New Developments Worldwide features ten articles about recent developments in the interaction of Religion and Politics in various countries of Asia, Africa, Europe, and both North and South America. Most articles focus on one country, and including China, South Korea, India, Nigeria, Malaysia, France, and Cuba. Others address issues across regions such as Latin America, Southeast Asia, or the Middle East. The fifteen contributors are scholars from diverse disciplines as well as diverse regions of Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Americas. Subjects include the Indian government’s favoritism for Hinduism over rival religions; the way the Sikhs of India avoid the religion–politics divide; the way the Western media fails to fully understand the Chinese government’s policies on religious minorities; the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo demonstrations in France; religious attitudes toward tax politics in South Korea as well as among Christians compared to Muslims; how to lessen the radicalization of Muslims in Southeast Asia; whether Nigeria should encourage its Muslims to be active in the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation; the spiritual role played by the permaculture movement in Cuba; and how the former tendency of scholars to polarize religion and politics is no longer viable, especially in Latin America.
religiosity --- religion --- tax equity --- exchange equity --- horizontal equity --- vertical equity --- Cuba --- permaculture --- nature spirituality --- religion and politics --- theories of religion --- deradicalization --- moderate education --- parent culture --- contextualization --- Southeast Asia --- religion --- religiosity --- ethics --- redistribution --- property rights --- economic inequality --- government --- subsidy --- tax --- public finance --- Latin America --- religion --- politics --- methodology --- theory --- Nigeria --- Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) --- foreign policy --- secularity --- economic aids --- Charlie Hebdo --- Je Suis Charlie --- January 11th 2015 --- French Republic --- secularism --- terrorism --- fraternity --- Akal Takhat --- British Raj --- halem? r?j --- Khalsa --- m?r?-p?r? --- religion and politics --- secularism --- SGPC --- Akali Dal --- Punjab --- Hindutva --- religious conversion --- ghar wapsi --- mass conversion --- India --- Dalit --- religion and politics --- People’s Republic of China --- Uyghurs --- Xinjiang --- Tibet
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