Development with Stability: The Indian Experiment, Poverty and Planning, Co-operative Leadership in South-East Asia and Aspects of Economic Change and Policy in India 1800–1960 and The Strategy for Agricultural Development and other Essays on Economic Policy and Planning

1964 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 556-557
Author(s):  
Maurice Zinkin
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Economic Change ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Policy And Planning

Thailand faces long road to TPP entry

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
International Economic ◽  
Economic Policy ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Consumer Protection ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Policy Committee

Subject TPP membership. Significance The Thai government's International Economic Policy Committee planned on April 29 to announce that Bangkok would seek entry into the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). However, agricultural groups pre-empted the announcement by threatening national farmers' strikes. Three groups in particular oppose the TPP: farmers, health activists and consumer protection organisations. Impacts RCEP and TPP memberships are not mutually exclusive; rather, membership of both would help balance Thai foreign policy. TPP may help Thailand realise its longstanding goal to be the financial and transportation hub of mainland South-east Asia. TPP will not ease Thailand's immediate economic woes; growth this year will slow to around 3.3%.

Great Transformations

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andy Sumner
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Structural Transformation ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
High Price ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Inclusive Growth ◽  
Political Opposition ◽  
Social Basis ◽  
Political Freedoms

In this chapter we revisit this first era of classical developmentalism and industrialization in South East Asia from the late 1960s to the early to mid 1980s. The chapter argues that in keeping with the discussion of Lewis and Kuznets, the outcomes were impressive, and the end of classical developmentalism in South East Asia was due to global forces and the mode of global incorporation. The state was important in managing distributional tensions to address the Kuznetsian upswing of inequality that structural transformation unleashes. Specifically, the focus on agriculture and rural development ensured a social basis—improvements in welfare for the rural masses—that compensated for democracy. Agricultural development also supported industrialization. It is important to note, though, that absence of elite conflict, which facilitated structural transformation and inclusive growth in the region, had a high price in terms of the curtailing of political opposition, and political freedoms.

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