Investigates the World Bank's promotion of market-led development in the underdeveloped world and the impact that this promotion has upon citizenship. This book looks at this subject using case studies drawn from Southeast Asia, one of the world's most diverse regions.
Investigates the World Bank's promotion of market-led development in the underdeveloped world and the impact that this promotion has upon citizenship....
Economic growth continues to transform the economic and political landscape of Asia. Equally the policies now being adopted to promote private sector participation, re-structure state entities, and reduce the presence of the state in the provision of public goods and services, are tied to fundamental transformations in Asia's state-society relations. The global cast of contributors present a timely analysis of the impact of neo-liberalism on Asia's developmental policies and the organisation of Asian states and markets. Ironically, the "developmental state" that has historically driven Asia's...
Economic growth continues to transform the economic and political landscape of Asia. Equally the policies now being adopted to promote private sector ...
Markets and Development presents a series of critical contributions focused on the "political" relationship between citizens, civil society, and neoliberal development policy s latest form. The dramatic increase of access to finance investments, newly gender-sensitive approaches to building neoliberal labour markets, the universal promotion of public-private partnerships, and the development financing of extractive industries, have all seen citizens, social movements, and NGOs variously engaged in, and against, neoliberalism like never before. The precise form that this engagement takes is...
Markets and Development presents a series of critical contributions focused on the "political" relationship between citizens, civil society, and ne...
