Southeast Asia beyond Crises and Traps Economic Growth and Upgrading /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Khoo, Boo Teik (Editor), Tsunekawa, Keiichi (Editor), Kawano, Motoko (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Series: Studies in Economic Transition
• Subjects: Development economics.; Economic growth.; Asia > Economic conditions.; Economics.; Asian Economics.; Development Economics.; Economic Growth.

This book examines how Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam can provide instructive case studies of how Southeast Asia has negotiated pathways of development beyond crises and traps. At two ends of just one decade, 1997–2007, these five countries all  weathered the shocks of an...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction. -1. Southeast Asia beyond crises and traps
• Part I: Surveys of political economy
• 2. New Strategy of Thai Big Firms in the Era of ASEAN Community Era.-3. State, Industry and Business in Indonesia's Transformation
• 4. Vietnam's post-WTO Industrial Development: Strategies and Realities
• 5. Malaysia's Transformation: High Income, Middle Capability. -. Part II: In Search of Continuous Improvement
• 6. Industrial Innovation in Thailand: The Electronics, Automotive and Seafood Sectors
• 7. Upgrading Malaysia’s Rubber Manufacturing: Trajectories and Challenges
• 8. The Philippine Services Sector: Domestic Policy and Global Markets
• 9. Development of the Mining Industry in Indonesia, 1997–2014: An Institutional Assessment
• 10.