"This book examines the evolution of fiscal capacity in the context of colonial state formation and the changing world order between 1850 and 1960. Until the early nineteenth century, European colonial control over Asia and Africa was largely confined to coastal and island settlements, which...

Examines the process of poverty alleviation from 1976 to 1993. Finds that structural adjustment policies between 1981 and 1987 did not seem to have an adverse effect on poverty.

Ruth Daroesman was the first Assistant Editor of the <italic>Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies</italic>. She joined the ANU in 1968 and for the next 15 years worked alongside Professor Heinz Arndt, head of the then Department of Economics in the Research School of Pacific Studies, in building the journal's...