The politics of marketising Asia
By: edited by Toby Carroll, Associate Professor, City University of Hong Kong and Darryl S.L. Jarvis, Professor and Associate Dean, Hong Kong Institute of Education
Series: Studies in the Political Economy of Public Policy
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9781137001665
Subjects: Economic policy; Capitalism; Neoliberalism; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Regional Planning; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing Countries
Description: "Economic growth continues to transform the economic and political landscape of Asia. Equally the policies now being adopted to promote private sector participation, re-structure state entities, and reduce the presence of the state in the provision of public goods and services, are tied to fundamental transformations in Asia's state-society relations. The global cast of contributors present a timely analysis of the impact of neo-liberalism on Asia's developmental policies and the organisation of Asian states and markets. Ironically, the "developmental state" that has historically driven Asia's rapid economic transformation is now threatened by an increasingly dominant neoliberal agenda that aims to roll back the state in the name of market fundamentalism"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: 1. Theorising Asia's Marketisation under Late Capitalism: Risk, Capital and the New Politics of Development; Toby Carroll and Darryl S.L. Jarvis; title: 2. Risk, Social Protection and the World Market; Paul Cammack; title: 3. The International Finance Corporation's Transformation of Development in the Asia Pacific: Working on, Through and Around the State; Toby Carroll; title: 4. Regulatory States in the South: Can they Exist and do we want them? The case of the Indonesian Power Sector; Darryl S.L. Jarvis; title: 5. State-Building and Primitive Accumulation in the Solomon Islands: The Unintended Consequences of Risk Mitigation at the Frontiers of Global Capitalist Expansion; Shahar Hameiri; title: 6. Into the Deep: The World Bank Group and Mining Regimes in Laos, The Philippines and Papua New Guinea; Pascale Hatcher; title: 7. Building Neoliberal Markets and other Agendas: The Politics of Risk Management at AusAID; Thomas Wanner and Andrew Rosser; title: 8. Market building and risk under a Regime in Transition: The Asian Development Bank in Myanmar (Burma); Adam Simpson; title: 9. Reforming the Chinese Railway Sector: The Role and Limits of International Governmental Organisations in Building Markets; Marc Laperrouza; title: 10. Institutional Design and Quality as Determinants of Market Building: The Markets for Corporate Control in Asia; Alberto Asquer; title: 11. The Market Turn in Jakarta's Water Supply: Vested Interests and Challenges of Realising the Regulatory State; Leong Ching; title: 12. Problems and Obstacles to Market Building in the Indian Energy Sector; Pramod Kumar Yadav.