The impact of globalization on social development is a critical issue for both developed and developing countries. In "Globalization and Social Development", leading experts investigate this from the perspective of European, and more specifically, Southeast Asian economies including Thailand, the Philippines and Vietnam. The contributors provide a well documented, multi-disciplinary analysis of the relationship between globalization and social development in regions which, in the last two decades, have relied heavily on an outward looking development strategy and on attracting FDI, and which...