Living standards in Southeast Asia : changes over the long twentieth century, 1900-2015

Assessing changes in living standards in Southeast Asia in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries -- The colonial period: population and output growth in agricultural and non-agricultural sectors -- The colonial period: measures of welfare and changing living standards -- Confronting the challenges of independence -- Estimating poverty and inequality: country estimates from the 1950s to the 1970s -- The 1980s and the 1990s: the fast and the slow in Southeast Asia -- Growth, poverty and distribution in the early twenty-first century -- Government policy interventions -- What have we learned? -- Bibliography -- Index.