Unplanned Development : Tracking Change in South-East Asia

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About the author; Title page; Copyright page; Tables, figures, illustrations, boxes; Tables; Figures; Illustrations; Boxes; Abbreviations and glossary; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1 | The hidden geometries of development; Introduction: outlining the hidden geometries of development; From the big picture to the minutiae; The structure of the book and the argument; From South-East Asia to the global South: the case against orthodoxies and rule books; 2 | From development plans to development planning; Introduction; The science (and art) of plans and planning

2.1 Three development eras and development planning paradigms2.2 Planning and planning agencies in South-East Asia; Development planning dilemmas, development planning failures; 2.3 Generic weaknesses in planning systems and assumptions; 2.4 Planning the Lao PDR; Planning experiences in Asia; 2.1 The Ciputra housing development in Hanoi, Vietnam (2010); 2.5 Planned versus realized impacts and returns of the Pak Mun Dam; Alternatives to planning: a conclusion and a beginning; 3 | State and market perfections and imperfections; Introduction: from Asian miracle to Asian crisis

3.1 Growth and poverty, Thailand: 1962-20113.1a East and South-East Asia: average annual growth of GDP, 1960-97; The East Asian miracle, industrial policy and the Asian developmental state; 3.1b East and South-East Asia: average annual growth of GDP, 1997-2010; 3.2 Poverty in East Asia, 1975-2004 (millions living on less than 1 per day); 3.3 Drawing lines: poverty in Asia, 1990 and 2005 (millions) based on 1-a-day and 2-a-day poverty lines; 3.2 Tiers of East Asian miracles; 3.4 Flying geese? Investment and technology transfer spillovers in Asia, 1950-2000

3.3 Mapping the Vietnamese experience onto growth models3.1 Hanoi's streets (and market economy) in 1990; 3.2 Hanoi's streets in 2010; 3.4 Pinning down the developmental state; 3.5 State to market, and points between; The lessons of the Asian economic crisis; 3.6 GDP growth in Asia, 1998, forecast and actual; 3.7 From Washington to Post-Washington Consensus; The 'proper' role of the market (and the state); Conclusion; 4 | The teleology of development: history and technology; Introduction; The grandest teleology: modernization theory, modernization thinking

4.1 'The route to a new life': modernizing the uplands and uplanders in the Lao PDRHistorical breaks; 4.1 Japanese foreign direct investment, 1984-2000; 4.2 Steam dredge used to dig the canals of the Mekong Delta; 4.2 Area under rice cultivation in Lower Burma, Siam and Cochin-China (1860, 1890 and 1920, hectares); 4.3 Low-visibility revolution: the shrimp-tail water pump; 4.3 Pangasius production, exports and value, Vietnam, 2001-08; 4.4 Vietnam's and world coffee exports, 1990-2010; Conclusion: from state optics to parochial politics

5 | The power of ordinary events in shaping development

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