"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,...

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...