Challenging Southeast Asian Development

The shadows of success

By: Jonathan Rigg

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Paperback | 10 August 2015 | Edition Number 1

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Over the course of the last half century, the growth economies of Southeast Asia - Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam - have transformed themselves into middle income countries. This book looks at how the very success of these economies has bred new challenges, novel problems, and fresh tensions, while hang-overs from years of underdevelopment also sometimes remain to be resolved.

These challenges, problems and tensions range from seemingly intractable pockets of poverty to failures of government and governance, questions over the future sustainability of growth, new issues connected with emerging social maladies, environmental degradation and a declining quality of life. The book contributes to discussions of policy implications by developing a conceptual framing of 'growth with decline', melding endogenous and exogenous approaches to thinking about development paths. It then goes on to re-frame Asia's model(s) of growth, drawing out the problematic associations that are often overlooked. Presenting an interesting analysis on the problems of development, this book is an important contribution to Southeast Asian Studies, Development Studies and Environmental Studies.

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"[This book] has the potential to reshape how we see Southeast Asian development, and the development process more generally." Mike Parnwell, Leeds University, UK

"This book goes well beyond the dichotomised world of celebrating economic growth or commiserating with its victims. Instead, it takes success as a given, but seeks to understand the new problems that arise out of it. Professor Rigg's latest contribution certainly needs to be read by those critical of mainstream development, but especially by those working in institutions and agencies that are implicated one way or another not just in the neglect of development's underbelly, but also in its creation." Philip Hirsch, University of Sydney, Australia.

"In clear and persuasive terms, Rigg shows how 'the poor' are not just those left behind by development, as conventional discourses would have it - they are also the collateral victims of development who are dispossessed by, or excluded from, economic change and restructuring. Drawing on evidence from across the region, Challenging Southeast Asian Development does exactly what the title suggests, providing a comprehensive and critical corrective to conventional thinking." Philip Kelly, York University, Canada

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