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Title

Poverty and global recession in Southeast Asia / edited by Aris Ananta and Richard Barichello.

Publication

Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2012.

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Additional Authors

• Ananta, Aris.
• Barichello, Richard R.
• Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.

Description

xxviii, 432 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subjects

• Food prices > Southeast Asia > Congresses
• Poverty > Southeast Asia > Congresses
• Financial crises > Social aspects > Southeast Asia > Congresses
• Food supply > Southeast Asia > Congresses
• Poor > Southeast Asia > Social conditions > Congresses

Note

• Papers originally presented at a conference and a public seminar.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Part I: Introduction. Poverty and food security in uncertain Southeast Asia / Aris Ananta and Ricard Barichello -- Impact of world recession on rural poverty and food security in Southeast Asia : lessons from the 1997-1998 Asian crisis / Ricard Barichello -- Global economic crisis and social security in Southeast Asia / M. Ramesh -- Part II: Who are the poor? Education and employment of the poor in Laos / Myo Thant -- Regional disparities, income inequality and poverty : a cumulative causation from Malaysia's experience / Asi Ali Golam Hassan and Muszafarshah Mohd Mustafa -- The mobility game in Singapore : poverty, welfare, opportunity, and success in a capitalist economy / Tan Ern Ser -- Poverty in democratizing Indonesia / Aris Ananta and Evi Nurvidya Arifin -- Part III: Economics and politics of food. The political economy of rice and fuel pricing in Indonesia / Arianto A. Patunru and M. Chatih Basri -- The price of rice and politics of poverty in the Philippines / Jorge V. Tigno -- The impact of high food prices on food security in Cambodia / Chan Sophal -- Do the world energy price shocks explain Thailand's rice price turmoil? / Aekapol Chongvilaivan -- Part IV: Impact of global recession and coping mechanisms. Impact of the 1997-98 financial crisis on employment, migration, and poverty : lessons learnt from Thailand / Sawarai Boonyamanond and Sureeporn Punpuing -- Impact of global recession on wage inequality in Singapore / Yothin Jinjarak -- The urban poor during the global financial crisis and economic downturn in Vietnam / Dang Nguyen Anh -- High cost of living and social safety nets for low income groups in urban Sarawak, Malaysia / Ling How Kee and Wong Swee Kiong.

ISBN

• 9789814311199 (pbk.)
• 9814311197 (pbk.)
• 9789814311205 (pdf.)
• 9814311200 (pdf.)

LCCN

2011315682

OCLC

• ocn772820042
• 772820042
• SCSB-5668137

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Columbia University Libraries