| Description |
1 online resource (284 pages) |
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Routledge Revivals |
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Routledge revivals.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Tables; Notes on the Contributors; Preface; PART 1: SOCIETY AND POLITICS; 1 Integrating ASEAN and Fragmenting ARF in a Subregional and Regional Context; Introduction; Consensus Politics in a Subregional Context; Great Power Politics in a Regional Context; Subregionalisation and Regionalisation in Southeast Asia; An Evaluation; Notes; 2 Civil Society in Southeast Asia: Cases of Singapore and Malaysia; Civil Society: Significance in Southeast Asia and in the World |
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Singapore and Malaysia: Different Income Levels and Spectacular Economic Growth RatesWhy Focus on the Labour Activism in Malaysia and Singapore?; Singapore and Labour Inactivism; Malaysia and Labour Inactivism; Conclusion; Notes; References; 3 Constructing the 'China Circle' in China and Southeast Asia: State Policy, the Presence of Chinese Overseas and Globalisation; Introduction; State Policy: Chinese Overseas Investment and its Impacts; Framing The 'Overseas Chinese': From Culturalist Explanation To Orientalism |
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Conclusion: 'China Circle' in Action -- Ethnic Chinese Entrepreneurs and GlobalisationNotes; References; 4 Gender and Development in Post-Crisis Southeast Asia; How has the Asian Economic Crisis impacted on Women?; What was Women's Economic Significance in the East Asian 'Miracle Economies'?; Economic Recovery for Whom?; The Relevance of' Gender and Development' in Shaping the Economic Future of Southeast Asia; Notes; References; PART 2: ECONOMY AND LABOUR; 5 Emergence of a Global Economy in Southeast Asia: 1990s and Beyond; The Emergence of the Southeast Asia Economies |
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The Structural Change in the Southeast Asia EconomiesGlobalisation of Southeast Asian Economies; Financial Crisis and Challenges in the Twenty-first Century; Conclusion; Notes; References; 6 Labour Standards in the Southeast Asian Region: Retreats and Advances; An Imperfect Labour Market Recovery for working Women and Men in Asia; Inequality and Growth: the New Consensus; Social Dialogue and Economic Outcomes; Constraints on Freedom of Association in the Asian Region Remain Serious; Conclusion; PART 3: SOCIAL POLICY; 7 The Welfare System in Southeast Asia: Development and Challenges |
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The Asian Welfare SystemThe Development and Characteristics of Welfare Regimes in Southeast Asia; Characteristics, Achievements and Problems; The Asian Financial Crisis and its Social Impacts in Southeast Asia; Changing Social Trends and their Impact on the Asian Welfare Systems; The Sustainability of the Asian Welfare System in Southeast Asia; Notes; References; 8 Social Security and Safety Net Development in Southeast Asia Amongst the Asian Financial Crisis; Social Security and Economic Insecurity; Underdevelopment of Safety Net Programmes in Southeast Asia |
| Notes |
The Asian Financial Crisis: Withering up of the Safety Net Functions of Social Security Programmes in Southeast Asia? |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Economic history
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Politics and government
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Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
Southeast Asia -- Social conditions -- 20th century
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Southeast Asia -- Economic conditions -- 20th century
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Southeast Asia -- Politics and government -- 20th century
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| Subject |
Southeast Asia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Chan, Raymond K. H
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| ISBN |
9781351729574 |
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1351729578 |
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