Anne Booth

Economic Change in Modern Indonesia

Colonial and Post-Colonial Comparisons

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An accessible examination of Indonesia's economic history from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century from a comparative perspective.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 153mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781107521391
• ISBN-10: 1107521394
• Artikelnr.: 43856968

Autorenporträt

Anne Booth attended Victoria University of Wellington and the Australian National University in Canberra. She subsequently taught at the University of Singapore and returned to the Australian National University as a research fellow in 1979. In 1991, she moved to the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, as a professor in the Department of Economics, with reference to Asia. Her chief area of interest has been Southeast Asia with a particular interest in Indonesian economic history in the twentieth century.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Indonesia's three watersheds
2. The colonial legacy
3. Occupation, liberation and the challenges facing the new republic, 1942-66
4. Suharto's economic record: successes and failures
5. The 1997/98 crisis and its legacy: dropping out again?
6. The SBY years: building a new Indonesia?
7. Economic nationalism, economic rationalism and the development of private business after 1950
8. Trends in poverty and income distribution: the Suharto era and beyond
9. The changing role of government from the colonial era to the post-Suharto years
10. Conclusions
Bibliography
Index.