Economic Change in Modern Indonesia

Auteur

Anne Booth attended Victoria University of Wellington and the Australian National University in Canberra. She subsequently taught at the University of Singapore and returned to the Australian National University as a research fellow in 1979. In 1991, she moved to the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, as a professor in the Department of Economics, with reference to Asia. Her chief area of interest has been Southeast Asia with a particular interest in Indonesian economic history in the twentieth century.

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An accessible examination of Indonesia's economic history from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century from a comparative perspective.

Résumé
Anne Booth examines Indonesian economic performance from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century, explaining the long-term factors which have influenced the country's economic development, as well as the persistence of economic nationalism and the ongoing tensions between Indonesia's diverse regions.

Contenu

1. Introduction: Indonesia's three watersheds; 2. The colonial legacy; 3. Occupation, liberation and the challenges facing the new republic, 1942 66; 4. Suharto's economic record: successes and failures; 5. The 1997/98 crisis and its legacy: dropping out again?; 6. The SBY years: building a new Indonesia?; 7. Economic nationalism, economic rationalism and the development of private business after 1950; 8. Trends in poverty and income distribution: the Suharto era and beyond; 9. The changing role of government from the colonial era to the post-Suharto years; 10. Conclusions; Bibliography; Index.