Economic growth with equity : lessons from East Asia
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Economic growth with equity : lessons from East Asia
（Oxfam insight）
Oxfam Publications, 1998
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Description
This book looks at lessons to be learned from the phenomenon of economic growth in East Asian countries. Alongside such growth, countries such as Thailand, Malaysia and South Korea have made progress in terms of human development indicators and the percentage of the population living in poverty has fallen. How have these countries managed to combine growth with equity? Kevin Watkins examines the various social policies adopted by governments in the region, which have enabled the benefits of growth and prosperity to be widely shared, whilst highlighting that not all the lessons are positive - some ethnic groups have been excluded from the general improvements in living standards, as have certain areas of particular countries. The book critically assesses the successes, failures and future potential, of the East Asian
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. Three East Asian lessons
- 2. Growth with equity and poverty reduction
- 3. Prioritising human development: the social policy fundamentals
- 4. Employment and manufacturing
- 5. Rural development through redistribution
- The limits to growth with equity
- Postscript: The East Asian crisis and the threat to growth with equity
- Notes
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