Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- List of Tables -- 1 Assessing Changes in Living Standards in Southeast Asia in the Twentieth and Early Twenty-first Centuries -- 2 The Colonial Period: Population and Output Growth in Agricultural and Non-agricultural Sectors -- 3 The Colonial Period: Measures of Welfare and Changing Living Standards -- 4 Confronting the Challenges of Independence -- 5 Estimating Poverty and Inequality : Country Estimates from the 1950s to the 1970s -- 6 The 1980s and the 1990s: The Fast and the Slow in Southeast Asia -- 7 Growth, Poverty and Distribution in the Early Twenty-first Century -- 8 Government Policy Interventions -- 9 What Have We Learned? -- Bibliography -- Index.

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