"The book is a key reading which provides a comprehensive and systematic overview of the contemporary Asian economy. The book focuses on the structural changes that are rapidly transforming the regional economic landscape in the 21st century. It highlights the concomitant challenges that have...

Machine generated contents note: 1 Intermediation Processes, Coalitions, and Structural Change -- 2 The Advance of Malay Capital: From Growth to Redistribution -- 3 From the Reddingsdaad Movement to "Yuppiehood": -- The Nationalist-Corporatist Project of Afrikaner Nationalism -- 4 Back to...

During Apartheid, there was little need for redistributional policies or to borrow for public works since the vast majority of the population was undeserved. With the arrival of a representative democracy in 1994, however, South Africa faced a unique problem -- providing new and improved public...

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Authors' Note -- 1 Introduction: States, Markets, and Inequality -- 2 South African Society on the Eve of Apartheid -- 3 Social Change and Income Inequality Under Apartheid -- 4 Apartheid as a Distributional Regime -- 5 The Rise of Unemployment Under...