"Over the course of the last half century, the growth economies of Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam, have transformed themselves into middle income countries. This book looks at how the very success of these economies has bred new challenges,...

"This Handbook provides a comprehensive analysis of some of the world's most pressing global development challenges - including how they may be better understood and addressed through innovative practices and approaches to learning and teaching. Featuring 60 contributions from leading academics...

"China, Laos and Vietnam are three of a handful of late socialist countries where capitalist economics rubs up against party-state politics. In these countries, sweeping processes of change open up new vistas of opportunity and imaginaries of the future alongside much uncertainty and anxiety,...

Unplanned Development offers a fascinating and fresh view of development planning. While to the outsider most development projects present themselves as thoroughly planned endeavours, informed by structure, direction and intent, Jonathan Rigg exposes the reality ? that chance, serendipity and...