Uneven development in South East Asia
By: edited by Chris Dixon and David Drakakis-Smith.
Contributors: Dixon, C. J.; Drakakis-Smith, D. W.; European Association for South-East Asian Studies.
Publisher: Ashgate; Avebury
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Brookfield, Vt
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
Subjects: Regional disparities -- Asia, Southeastern -- Congresses.; Southeast Asia -- Economic policy -- Congresses.; Southeast Asia -- Economic conditions -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-248) and index.
"Volume had its origins in a panel discussion held during the European Association for South East Asian Studies (EUROSEAS) conference held at Leiden during July 1995"--P. xiv.
Table of contents: title: Contemporary and historical perspectives on uneven development in South East Asia / Chris Dixon, David Drakakis-Smith; title: The challenge from South East Asia : social forces between equity and growth / Johannes Dragsbaek Schmidt; title: Poverty in South East Asia : some comparative estimates / Anne Booth; title: The price of success : disadvantaged groups in Singapore / Gillian Davidson, David Drakakis-Smith; title: Fringes or frontiers? : gender and export-oriented development in the Philippines / Cathy McIlwaine; title: Ethnicity and development in Malaysia / Jill Eyre; title: Uneven development and the (re-)engagement of Laos / Jonathan Rigg; title: Foreign investment and the spatial pattern of growth in Vietnam / Curt Nestor; title: The extended Bangkok Metropolitan Region and uneven industrial development in Thailand / Luxmon Wongsuphasawat.