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• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: The Great Climate Transformation
• Chapter 3: Shift in Global Climate Discourse
• Chapter 4: The Evolving Geopolitics of Climate Change
• Chapter 5: Dynamic Differentiation
• Chapter 6: The Rise of Non-state Actors
• Chapter 7: Emergent Climate-related Policy Issues
• Chapter 8: Governing Complexity
• Chapter 9: Conclusion

This book examines how Africa can secure a just transition to low-carbon, climate-resilient economies. Kennedy Mbeva is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford Reuben Makomere is a Research Associate at the Africa Research and Impact Network (ARIN) Joanes Atela is the Convenor of the Africa Research and Impact Network (ARIN) Victoria Chengo is a Research Fellow at the Africa Research and Impact Network (ARIN) Charles Tonui is the Policy Convenor at the Africa Research and Impact Network (ARIN)

• Introduction : A Refugee Boom Town
• Building the Working Man's Dream
• Mineral Meets Migrant Metallurgies
• Securing the Offshore Industry
• Resource Frictions
• Ekamawir Omo : Connecting Communities
• Bitter Money

"This book focuses on the production and impacts of the phosphate and asylum industries in the Republic of Nauru."-- Provided by publisher

• Introduction
• The social costs of capitalism
• Power plays and propaganda
• Fighting the New Deal
• The tripod of freedom
• "A stringent, crystalline vision of the free market"
• The big myth goes West
• A questionable gospel
• No more Grapes of Wrath
• Steering the Chicago School
• The American road to serfdom
• A love story about capitalism
• The dawn of deregulation
• Magical thinking
• Apotheosis
• The high cost of the "free" market
• Conclusion

"In the early 20th century, business elites, trade associations, wealthy powerbrokers, and media allies set out to build a new American orthodoxy: down with "big government" and up with unfettered markets. With startling archival evidence, Oreskes and Conway document campaigns to rewrite textbooks, combat unions, and defend child labor. They detail the ploys that turned hardline economists Friedrich von Hayek and Milton Friedman into household names; recount the libertarian roots of the Little House on the Prairie books; and tune into the General Electric-sponsored TV show that beamed free-market doctrine to millions and launched Ronald Reagan's political career"-- Provided by publisher

• 1 Introduction: Demystifying Innovation in China 2 China's Path to Indigenous Innovation: A Historical Perspective 3 The Telecommunication Equipment Industry: The Rise of Innovative Enterprise 4 The Semiconductor Industry: Catch-up in Bleeding-Edge Technology 5 Conclusion: The Quest for Indigenous Innovation.
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China has become an innovation powerhouse in high-tech industries, but the widely held view assumes the Chinese model is built on technological borrowing and state capitalism. This book debunks the myths surrounding the Chinese model with a fresh take on China's strategies for technological innovation. The central argument is that indigenous innovation plays a critical role in transforming the Chinese high-tech industry. Like any successfully industrialized nation in history, indigenous innovation in China allows industrial enterprises to assimilate knowledge developed elsewhere, utilize science and technology resources and human capabilities accumulated in the country, and eventually approach the technological frontier. The question is, how do Chinese businesses and governments engage in indigenous innovation? Employing the "social conditions of innovative enterprise" framework developed by William Lazonick and colleagues, this book analyzes how the interaction of strategy, organization, and finance in leading Chinese high-tech firms underpinned by national institutions enables indigenous innovation with Chinese characteristics. It features detailed case studies of two critical high-tech industries-the telecom-equipment industry and the semiconductor industry-and within them, the business histories of leading Chinese innovators. The in-depth look into China's experience in indigenous innovation provides valuable lessons for advanced and emerging economies.
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• Introduction: Clean Air at What Cost?
• Blunt Force Regulation
• Why Blunt Force Regulation?
• Blunt Force Regulation and Bureaucratic Control
• The Impact of Blunt Force Regulation
• What are the Alternatives?
• Managing the Risks
• Comparative Implications
• Conclusion.

"China's green transition is often perceived as a lesson in authoritarian efficiency. In just a few years, the state managed to improve air quality, contain dissent, and restructure local industry. Much of this was achieved through top-down, "blunt force" solutions, such as forcibly shuttering or destroying polluting factories. This book argues that China's blunt force regulation is actually a sign of weak state capacity and ineffective bureaucratic control. Integrating case studies with quantitative evidence, it shows how widespread industry shutdowns are used, not to scare polluters into respecting pollution standards, but to scare bureaucrats into respecting central orders. These measures have improved air quality in almost all Chinese cities, but at immense social and economic cost. This book delves into the negotiations, trade-offs, and day-to-day battles of local pollution enforcement to explain why governments employ such costly measures, and what this reveals about a state's powers to govern society"-- Provided by publisher.

In Community Benefits, Jovanna P. Rosen explores a new pattern in urban development: local residents and community representatives leveraging large-scale development projects for agreements that promise dedicated local benefits, such as parks and jobs. In general, such development projects have not produced impactful benefits for local residents, and often have contributed to significant community harm, including gentrification and displacement. In response, community activists have launched a fight to control development, using benefits-sharing agreements to ensure that projects produced better outcomes for local residents. While such agreements now exist across the nation, the process of negotiating and enforcing them remains challenging. This book dives deep into four case studies?in Los Angeles, Atlanta, Seattle, and Milwaukee?to answer the following questions: Who ultimately benefits from both the agreements and the projects in question? How do benefits get delivered, and who controls this process? What works for these agreements to successfully produce community outcomes?0Rosen shows that, without agreements that promote accountability, developers and other project proponents can walk away from the negotiating table once the agreement is signed and the development moves forward. This disregard for community benefits and priorities can leave community residents solely responsible for benefits delivery during implementation, but with few viable avenues to ensure that outcomes materialize. The cases reveal specific elements that agreements require to achieve success during implementation: community participation, managerial connections, effective partnerships, responsiveness, and vigorous oversight with accountability mechanisms. Although creating these conditions is difficult, sometimes impossible, and contingent on fragile processes, Rosen concludes the book with recommendations for both the agreement negotiation and implementation phases to ensure success.

• Introduction
• 1. Household indebtedness: theories and facts
• 2. Household indebtedness: empirical analysis
• 3. The nature of household over-indebtedness: theory and measurement
• 4. Characteristics of over-indebted households: empirical analysis
• 5. Household over-indebtedness and well-being
• 6. The economic well-being of over-indebted households: own research Conclusion.
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The growing indebtedness of households reported over the last 30 years and in most developed countries has serious economic and social implications. This book provides insight into the concepts, measures, and determinants of household indebtedness, over-indebtedness, and well-being by integrating theoretical perspectives, adopting recent analytical methods, and using a sample of Polish households. The authors identified the socio-demographic and economic characteristics of indebted and over-indebted households, as well as the basic characteristics of indebtedness and the differences in its subjective perception among over-indebted households and those that are not over-indebted. They determined the spatial differentiation of over-indebtedness, examining the relationship between economic, social and behavioural factors and over-indebtedness and the role of over-indebtedness in shaping the economic well-being of households. The results of a questionnaire conducted on a sample of Polish households and econometric modelling served as the basis for assessing the economic well-being of indebted households. This assessment was conducted with the use of a composite well-being indicator developed by the authors. Given the multidimensional nature of the issues being analysed, the authors offer an approach that accounts for two separate but overlapping dimensions of economic well-being, namely material and financial, and two ways of assessing each of them: objective and subjective. The book holds appeal for researchers, scholars, and students of economics, finance, consumer economics, and economic psychology and offers practical guidance for policymakers and advisors who deal with consumer affairs.
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• Foreword
• Chapter 1 Introduction
• PART I: emerging concepts and perspectives
• Chapter 2 Introducing the Pluriverse of the Anthropocene: Toward an Ontological Politics of Environmental Governance in Indonesia
• Chapter 3 Earth System Governance in Indonesia: An Initial Investigation
• Chapter 4 Post-politicizing the Environment: Local Government Performance Assessments in Indonesia
• PART II: Wetlands
• Chapter 5 Gender and Climate Change Vulnerability: A Case Study of a Coastal Community in Pramuka Island, The Seribu Islands
• Chapter 6 Coastal Forest Re-Grabbing: A Case from Langkat, North Sumatera, Indonesia
• Chapter 7 Towards Sustainable Lake Ecosystem-Based Management Lessons Learned from Interdisciplinary Research of Cage Aquaculture Management in Lake Maninjau
• Chapter 8 Community-Based Fire Management and Peatland Restoration in Indonesia
• Chapter 9 Assessing the Governance Modes of Indonesias Forest Management Unit
• Chapter 10 Biofuels Development and Indirect Deforestation
• Chapter 11 The Dynamics of the Green Policies in Papua Land: A Political Economy Study
• Chapter 12 Environmental Governance as Knowledge Co-Production: the Emergence of Permaculture Movements in Indonesia
• Chapter 13 Aggregation and Representation in Knowledge Coproduction: Lesson Learned from the Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil Scheme
• Part IV: Urban
• Chapter 14 The Conceptual Models of Dynamic Governance Toward Sustainable Urban Water Management in Metropolitan Area
• Chapter 15 Governance by Accident:The Role of Civil Society in Shaping Urban Environmental Governance
• Chapter 16 Water Resources Governance in Indonesia Towards Environmental Sustainability Along with Social and Economic Development
• Chapter 17 Coordination Challenges Facing Effective Flood Governance in the Ciliwung River Basin
• Chapter 18 Transformative Solutions in the Global South: Addressing Solid Waste Management Challenges in Jakarta through Participation by Civil Society Organizations?
• PART V: Climate
• Chapter 19 Should Climate Actions Stay Amidst the Covid-19 Pandemic? A Crisis Management Governance Perspective
• Chapter 20 Climate Action in a Far-Flung Archipelagic Nation: Outlining Challenges in Capacity-Building
• Chapter 21 Strategy for Sustainable Urban Climate Mitigation: Kupang City Climate Risk Assessment
• Chapter 22 Local resource governance: Strategies for adapting to change
• Part VI: Social and technological Interventions
• Chapter 23 Local Governance of Sustainability Transition in Community-scale Solar Water Pumping Systems in Indonesia
• Chapter 24 Building a Sustainable Photovoltaic Innovation System in Indonesia Through Network Governance Perspective
• Chapter 25 Conceptual Design of Sustainable Governance by VIDEL (Virtual Dashboard of Environmentally Logistics-Port-City): a Case Study of Jakarta and Tanjung-Priok Port.

This open access book presents the state-of-the-art environmental governance research and practices in Indonesia. It offers a wide scope, covering different sectors (e.g., forestry, mining) and geographical landscapes (e.g., inland and coastal areas). This book engages with existing theories and frameworks, including Earth System Governance, Adaptive and Interactive Governance, among others to trigger a debate regarding the operationalization of such concepts, which are mostly developed for the Global North context. It is also our ambition to incorporate more empirical knowledge from local contexts to indicate research gaps and future directions for environmental governance research agenda to be more diverse, inclusive, and facilitate the incorporation of inter-and transdisciplinary knowledge. This book will be useful for researchers, students, practitioners, and policymakers who are interested in the field of environmental governance, especially in Indonesia. Indonesia is one of the countries with the fastest-growing economies in Asia. Indonesia is rich in natural resources but also suffers from overexploitation and environmental threats exacerbated by climate and human pressures. Along with the growing global ambitions for achieving sustainable development and capacity to adapt to current and future threats, including climate change impacts and disaster risk, Indonesia's commitments to balance development while safeguarding a good environmental status are also increasing. The challenge is on how to govern complex and systemic natural, social and governance systems while adhering to the principle of equity and justice? As it will require more than traditional hierarchical modes of governance and current regulatory instruments (i.e., law and regulations)

• Introduction: The Rhapsody of Kamikaze Capitalism
• Dreams of Surplus: The Age of Self-Conscious Consumption
• You Are What You Buy: Consumer Identities in the Dawn of the Bubble
• Economy
• The Age of Festivity: Women's Ambition for Wealth and Consumption of
• Luxury
• Irony of the Bubble Money: Lavish Consumption and Patriarchy in Spleen
• Affective Values in Consumption: Intimacy with What Money Can(not) Buy
• Malaise of Economic Euphoria: Bubble Japan in Search of Remedy
• The Bubble Economy as Inspiration for Mass Entertainment
• Epilogue: Toward the Age of Post-Bubble Consumerism

"This book is an interdisciplinary study of Japan during the 'Bubble-era' of the 1980s, which explores consumer experiences under the drastic socio-economic upheavals of the time. Drawing its analysis from media sources, popular literary works, and government reports, the book articulates how the late 1980s calibrated consumer demands, lifestyles, and perceptions of money. Through an examination of the qualitative effects of 'Bubble money' on consumers, the book illuminates the festive ambience of social life and metaphorical portrayals of the economic euphoria in popular literature. Moreover, through observations of human behaviours in consumption, the book reveals that consumers' psychosomatic experiences and self-consciousness reflect outlandish egocentrism in comparison to the post-Bubble decades. Featuring sources of Japanese media and literature which have yet to be translated for an English audience, this book will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of modern Japanese society, Asian literature and media"-- Provided by publisher

The rise of China is ever-present in debates on globalisation and ongoing power shifts. In a time of rising international tensions, understanding the interdependencies between China's course and the world economy is ever more important. Often, the economic reforms under Deng Xiaoping after 1978 are emphasised. They initiated dramatic changes in China's economy and contributed to its ascent as a world power. In contrast, less attention has been given to the context in which these reforms were implemented. Philippe Lionnet analyses important adjustments in China's agricultural, industrial and foreign trade policies in the course of the 1970s as well as their origins. He shows how policy experiments and their limits shaped the path of the socialist state

• Introduction / Danielle Spiegel-Feld, Katrina M. Wyman, and John J. Coughlin
• Global sustainable cities and Laudato Si' / John J. Coughlin
• Charting the legal landscape : cities' legal authority to develop environmental law / Josephine van Zeben
• No city is an island : water management in Berlin / Patrycja Długosz-Stroetges and Barbara Anton
• Restoring freshwater resources in Abu Dhabi : challenges and solutions / Sara Savarani
• Safeguarding Delhi's water / Vidya Vijayaraghavan
• New York City's water / Katrina M. Wyman
• Clearing Delhi's air : hits and misses in the last three decades / Tanushree Ganguly
• How to fight air pollution : the London way Frank J. Kelly
• The authority and experience of the city of Beijing with regulating air pollution / Alvin Lin
• Delhi's journey to reduce GHGs : initiatives and learnings from the electricity sector / Neeraj Kuldeep and Tirtha Biswas
• Energy cities : the case of London / Yael R. Lifshitz
• GHG emission reduction in Beijing : goals, actions, and recommendations / Mao Xianqiang, Hu Tao, He Feng, Xing Youkai, and Gao Yubing
• Global sustainable cities : Berlin aims at climate neutrality / Dörte Ohlhorst and Miranda A. Schreurs
• Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from buildings in New York City : an evolving regime / Danielle Spiegel-Feld
• Varieties of approaches to climate adaptation in cities : towards a focus on equity / Eric K. Chu, Asiya N. Natekal, Hanne J. van den Berg, and Clare E. B. Cannon
• Shanghai's strive to excel in climate change adaptation and low-carbon promises : a model to follow? / Harry den Hartog
• Adapting New York City : how the largest U.S. city is addressing the impacts of climate change on its coastal communities / Adalene Minelli
• Climate change adaptation in Abu Dhabi / Katie Zavadski

"This book provides a critical look at the measures that leading cities in the global north and south are taking to meet the sustainability challenges of the 21st century. Bringing together local experts from around the world, the volume surveys these cities' efforts to reduce air pollution and greenhouse gases, secure fresh drinking water supplies, and adapt to climate change"-- Provided by publisher

"Brexit has irrevocably transformed British politics, yet its effects are not confined to relations between the UK and the EU. Venturing beyond the already vast literature on Brexit, this dynamic Handbook explores the implications of the UK's withdrawal from the EU for the EU itself, single countries within and beyond Europe, and the international system, as well as different social groups, generations, and territories within the UK. John Erik Fossum and Christopher Lord bring together 29 expert contributions on the multiple actors and processes which have shaped Brexit. State-of-the-art chapters cover the various factors which led to the success of the 'Leave' campaign, the role of EU institutions in Brexit, the implications for other member states and players in the international system, and questions of political legitimacy posed by the UK's departure from the EU. The Handbook concludes with a discussion of the alternative relationships and opportunities available to the UK in the post-Brexit era. Advancing multiple specialised perspectives on and approaches to Brexit, this comprehensive Handbook will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of British and EU politics. Its overview of recent developments in the EU will allow researchers and research institutes to develop their own work on Brexit"-- Provided by publisher

"As we enter the material worlds of Spanish colonizers, we should get to know a little bit about the colonizers themselves. In this chapter, I characterize the economic standing of colonizers, focusing on their wealth and the kinds of things on which they spent or invested their money. To address issues of wealth, it will be necessary to study the kinds of coin and other media of exchange that were in use in sixteenth-century Mexico City. The people compiling the probate inventories that form the basis of this study measured and recorded the value of each item in material terms: the amount of gold that would be necessary to purchase a person's belongings. They translated each decedent's net worth into coin in official documents, with the intent of communicating and sending the value of the decedent's belongings to his or her family in Spain. Calculating the value of a decedent's belongings as gold also helped the church and the Spanish crown collect some revenue from a person's estate, through donations to the church and taxes to the king"-- Provided by publisher.

"This study examines economic development in India and China over the past few decades, in which the former stagnated and the latter grew exponentially. The authors argue that the economic "shock therapy" adopted by India, which China avoided, explains much of the difference"-- Provided by publisher

As a close aide to Michel Barnier, Stefaan De Rynck had a front row seat in the Brexit negotiations. In this frank and uncompromising account, De Rynck tells the EU's side of the story and seeks to dispel some of the myths and spin that have become indelibly linked to the Brexit process. From the mood in the room to the technical discussions, he gives an unvarnished account of the deliberations and obstacles that shaped the final deal. De Rynck demonstrates how the EU-27's unity held firm throughout, while the UK vacillated, changed negotiators, changed prime ministers and changed their aims and tactics. Attempts by the UK to run down the clock and issue ultimatums to force the EU to acquiesce are shown to have had no effect on the course of events. Instead Barnier's team was successful in protecting EU interests, in fulfilling the mandate defined by 27 national governments while still agreeing different forms of Brexit with two UK prime ministers. For the EU, Brexit was not, as some UK commentators and politicians liked to portray it, a fight with the UK. It was a fight to get a deal that worked for the EU

"From start-up entrepreneurs in China's equivalent Silicon Valley to the booming phenomenon of e-commerce rural villages, IT and new internet-based industries are shaping ideas and practices regarding labor and identity in China. Digital entrepreneurship was seen as a way to energize China's slowing economy after the 2008 global financial crisis-but its implementation and practice, while successful in some respects, has also reinforced traditional ideas about state power, gender, and what it means to be Chinese. Lin Zhang argues that these new digital initiatives have simultaneously empowered and exploited digital entrepreneurs and laborers. Through her examination and critique of the new media economy in China, Zhang highlights the historical ruptures, continuities, and contradictions of entrepreneurial labor of self-reinvention in China. In The Labor of Reinvention, Lin Zhang examines digital entrepreneurship in three different areas of Chinese society to provide a multifaceted and ground-level view of how the Chinese are grappling with the new digital economy. She recounts the story of how one U.S.-educated IT entrepreneur's initial application of Google's "people-centric" management style gave way to nationalist discourse to ensure state funding for his crypto-chip startup. Far from Beijing, Zhang considers the mixed success of new ventures in rural areas that combine modern e-commerce with centuries-old practices of familial production. Finally, she discusses a group of internationally mobile upper-class Chinese women whose ability to create a space for themselves in the new digital economy selling luxury goods was curtailed by the patriarchal Chinese state"-- Provided by publisher

"Pharmaceuticals baby food, cotton clothing and cars are the four focus value chains of this report. Together they are poised to increase intraregional trade in Africa, reduce imports, diversify economies and create jobs for women and youth. The sectors were selected from 94 promising value chains and reflect African goals to improve food security, health and tech skills – making them strategic choices for governments and investors. This report offers insights to improve trade in such sectors, based on extensive data analysis and interviews with 10,000 firms, business support organizations, industry experts and other stakeholders in Africa. It recommends actions for growth and transformation across the African continent under the AfCFTA a reality. The European Union and the African Union contributed to the report

• Suggested Nontechnical Reading of the Book
• Introduction : Why We Are in a Second Gilded Age and What We Can Do About It
• The Nexus of Market Power, Technology, and Public Policy
• Economic Growth Under the Effect of Market Power
• Monopoly Wealth and Intangible Capital
• Determinants of Market Power in the United States, 1889-2017
• The Effect of Market Power on the Diffusion of Innovations
• Market Power and Asset Prices, 1950-2019
• R&D and Technological Competition
• Policy Reform
• Policy to Restrain the Expansion of Market Power
• Taxation, Public Investments, and Redistribution
• Concluding Remarks

"The reader may benefit from my explanation of the key turning points in my own thinking, during the six years of research. Ever since my graduate studies at Yale, the quest for a better understanding of the process of economic growth has been an important part of my research. Much of the work on economic growth in the post war period was conducted under the assumption of perfect competition. Paul Romer was among those who demonstrated that one cannot study economic growth and technological innovations within the framework of a competitive model of an economy. This observation led him to concentrate on the effects of R&D and intentional inventions on the rate of growth, but my conclusion was different. It led me to the first, central, theme of this book: it follows from the observation that once technological inventions are introduced, firms with different technological knowledge have different market positions and the vision of small, equal opportunity, firms is not applicable"-- Provided by publisher

This book gives a panoramic review of China's 70 years of modernization, reveals the historical process and logic of the formation of the modernization path with Chinese characteristics, especially focuses on the key decision-making process in the history of China's modernization, theoretically compares the Chinese model and the western mainstream model and summarizes the characteristics and experience of China's development model. At the same time, it reveals the causes of the global crisis from a historical perspective and puts forward the future of China based on historical experience. The book tries to answer the following hot-debating questions: What is the core of Chinese experience? Is China model a new model of modernization? Is China's model sustainable? Is this model compatible with the mainstream model? What is the relationship between China's revolution and modernization? How will China's development affect the world? This book will be found helpful by all scholars, students and the public who are interested in China's development path

"Reform has long been a consensus in China, but after decades of rapid growth, there still remain numerous intractable barriers and institutional constrains to solve, and new problems are continuously emerging out, all these hinder the implementation of China's deepening reform. How can China breakout those encirclements? This book is a collection of the author's series articles which concluded China's experience of social and economic reform and proposed that new momentum is needed for overall deepening of reform. Based on his years research on the real-world economics in rural land reform, state-owned enterprises reform, urbanization and urban governance, technology innovation and industrial upgrading, the author introduces the concepts of state and market, firm and law, property right and contracts, transaction cost and system cost, comparative advantage and competitive advantage etc. Whether the momentum of reform can penetrate multiple levels of complex networks, from top to grassroots, and local to central, is a decisive factor in China's deepening reform. This penetrating power has the connotation of the comprehensive decision making, technological innovation, and optimism in the face of uncertainty. Reform seeks to break, while innovation seeks to create. The future is better than you think"-- Provided by publisher

• Introduction: Social Outsourcing and Inequality
• Distributive Politics since Colonization
• Post-Socialist Welfare Outsourcing
• Disasters and the Polity
• Democracy, Freedom, and Morality
• Philanthropy and Wealth Defense
• Self-Reliance and Entitlement
• Conclusion: Path-Dependence and Welfare Regime Change

"Drawing on extensive political ethnography during Myanmar's decade of partial civilian rule (2011-2021), this book offers a new account of austerity and capitalism in Myanmar since independence in 1948 and examines how ideals and practices of non-state welfare can both sustain democratic resistance and undermine social reform over time"-- Provided by publisher

• Early Beginnings
• Economic Opportunity Atlanta
• Vine City
• The Poor Folks Movement
• Welfare and Workplace
• Housing Crisis
• Lobbying for Welfare
• Conclusion

Poor Atlanta looks at the poor people's campaigns in Atlanta in the 1960s and 1970s, which operated in relationship to Sunbelt city- building efforts. With these efforts, city leaders aimed to prevent urban violence, staunch disinvestment, check white flight, and amplify Atlanta's importance as a business and transportation hub. As urban leaders promoted Forward Atlanta, a program to, in Mayor Ivan Allen Jr.'s words, "sell the city like a product, " poor families insisted that their lives and living conditions, too, should improve. While not always operating within public awareness, antipoverty campaigns among the poor presented a regular and sometimes strident critique of inequality and Atlanta's uneven urban development. With Poor Atlanta, LeeAnn B. Lands demonstrates that, while eclipsed by the Black freedom movement, antipoverty organizing (including direct action campaigns, legal actions, lobbying, and other forms of activism) occurred with regularity from 1964 through 1976. Her analysis is one of the few citywide studies of antipoverty organizing in late twentieth-century America.
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• The kind of problem poverty is
• Why haven't we made more progress?
• How we undercut workers
• How we force the poor to pay more
• How we rely on welfare
• How we buy opportunity
• Invest in ending poverty
• Empower the poor
• Tear down the walls

"The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it. The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. Why? Why does this land of plenty allow one in every eight of its children to go without basic necessities, permit scores of its citizens to live and die on the streets, and authorize its corporations to pay poverty wages? In this landmark book, acclaimed sociologist Matthew Desmond draws on history, research, and original reporting to show how affluent Americans knowingly and unknowingly keep poor people poor. Those of us who are financially secure exploit the poor, driving down their wages while forcing them to overpay for housing and access to cash and credit. We prioritize the subsidization of our wealth over the alleviation of poverty, designing a welfare state that gives the most to those who need the least. And we stockpile opportunity in exclusive communities, creating zones of concentrated riches alongside those of concentrated despair. Some lives are made small so that others may grow. Elegantly written and fiercely argued, this compassionate book gives us new ways of thinking about a morally urgent problem. It also helps us imagine solutions. Desmond builds a startlingly original and ambitious case for ending poverty. He calls on us all to become poverty abolitionists, engaged in a politics of collective belonging to usher in a new age of shared prosperity and, at last, true freedom"-- Provided by publisher

• The kind of problem poverty is
• Why haven't we made more progress?
• How we undercut workers
• How we force the poor to pay more
• How we rely on welfare
• How we buy opportunity
• Invest in ending poverty
• Empower the poor
• Tear down the walls

"The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it. The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. Why? Why does this land of plenty allow one in every eight of its children to go without basic necessities, permit scores of its citizens to live and die on the streets, and authorize its corporations to pay poverty wages? In this landmark book, acclaimed sociologist Matthew Desmond draws on history, research, and original reporting to show how affluent Americans knowingly and unknowingly keep poor people poor. Those of us who are financially secure exploit the poor, driving down their wages while forcing them to overpay for housing and access to cash and credit. We prioritize the subsidization of our wealth over the alleviation of poverty, designing a welfare state that gives the most to those who need the least. And we stockpile opportunity in exclusive communities, creating zones of concentrated riches alongside those of concentrated despair. Some lives are made small so that others may grow. Elegantly written and fiercely argued, this compassionate book gives us new ways of thinking about a morally urgent problem. It also helps us imagine solutions. Desmond builds a startlingly original and ambitious case for ending poverty. He calls on us all to become poverty abolitionists, engaged in a politics of collective belonging to usher in a new age of shared prosperity and, at last, true freedom."-- Provided by publisher

• Prologue
• Ch. 1. The kind of problem poverty is
• Ch. 2. Why haven't we made more progress?
• Ch. 3. How we undercut workers
• Ch. 4. How we force the poor to pay more
• Ch. 5. How we rely on welfare
• Ch. 6. How we buy opportunity
• Ch. 7. Invest in ending poverty
• Ch. 8. Empower the poor
• Ch. 9. Tear down the walls
• Epilogue
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• Index

"The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it. The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. Why? Why does this land of plenty allow one in every eight of its children to go without basic necessities, permit scores of its citizens to live and die on the streets, and authorize its corporations to pay poverty wages? In this landmark book, acclaimed sociologist Matthew Desmond draws on history, research, and original reporting to show how affluent Americans knowingly and unknowingly keep poor people poor. Those of us who are financially secure exploit the poor, driving down their wages while forcing them to overpay for housing and access to cash and credit. We prioritize the subsidization of our wealth over the alleviation of poverty, designing a welfare state that gives the most to those who need the least. And we stockpile opportunity in exclusive communities, creating zones of concentrated riches alongside those of concentrated despair. Some lives are made small so that others may grow. Elegantly written and fiercely argued, this compassionate book gives us new ways of thinking about a morally urgent problem. It also helps us imagine solutions. Desmond builds a startlingly original and ambitious case for ending poverty. He calls on us all to become poverty abolitionists, engaged in a politics of collective belonging to usher in a new age of shared prosperity and, at last, true freedom"-- Provided by publisher

• 1. Introduction - Filippo Carla-Uhink, Lucia Cecchet, and Carlos Machado, Part I: Greece,
• 2. Poverty, Wealth and Social Mobility: The cases of Megara and Athens - Lucia Cecchet,
• 3. Processes of Impoverishment: Bau Z in the Kerameikos and Discourses about Poverty - Claire Taylor,
• 4. Poverty and Honour in Classical Sparta - Gabriel C. Bernardo,
• 5. Greedy Gods and Hungry Humans: Sacrifice and the Poor in Classical and Hellenistic Greece - Irene Berti,
• 6. Poverty and Truth in Ancient Greek Philosophy - Etienne Helmer, Part II: Rome,
• 7. Impoverished Senatorial Women in Mid-Republican Rome: Opima gloria and felix paupertas? - Lewis Webb,
• 8. The Dynamics of Shame: Elite Poverty in Late Republican and Early Imperial Discourse - Christian Rollinger,
• 9. Cicero, the Poor, and Roman Rhetoric - Filippo Carla-Uhink,
• 10. Rich and Hungry, Poor and Full: Social and Cultural Food Poverty in the Roman World - Erica Rowan, Part III: Late Antiquity,
• 11. 'Not all Poverty is to be Praised': Defining the Poor in a Christian Roman Empire - Daniel Caner,
• 12. Looking for the Poor in Late Antique Rome - Carlos Machado,
• 13. The Poor Facing Late Antique Justice: the Cases from Papyri - Christel Freu,
• 14. Poverty, Charity and the Social Strategies of the "Poor" in Late Antiquity: the View from North Africa in the Age of Augustine - Julio Cesar Magalhaes de Oliveira.
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Offers the latest research on poverty in the Graeco-Roman world, and unique insights suitable for social scientists as well as those studying ancient history and classical literature.
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"This book has been quite some time in the making. Across a number of years I have researched, taught, and written about poverty. In my opinion, there are few topics of greater importance. It is a dominant and disturbing feature of the American landscape. Yet despite the hundreds of books, articles, reports, and programs addressing the issue, the United States continues to have the highest rates of poverty among the wealthy countries"-- Provided by publisher.

• 1 How it started
• 2 Trade and empire
• 3 The wonder of coal and machines
• 4 Age of steam and steel
• 5 Conserving resources
• 6 Buy now-pay later
• 7 Stepping on the gas
• 8 Selling everything
• 9 The rise and globalization of environmentalism
• Conclusion: Profit-Capitalism and environment

Profit - getting more out of something than you put into it - is the original genius of homo sapiens, who learned how to unleash the energy stored in wood, exploit the land, and refashion ecosystems. As civilization developed, we found more and more ways of extracting surplus value from the earth, often deploying brutally effective methods to discipline people to do the work needed. Historian Mark Stoll explains how capitalism supercharged this process and traces its many environmental consequences. The financial innovations of medieval Italy created trade networks that, with the European discovery of the Americas, made possible vast profits and sweeping cultural changes, to the detriment of millions of slaves and indigenous Americans; the industrial age united the world in trade and led to an energy revolution that changed lives everywhere. But when efficient production left society awash in goods, a new sort of capitalism, predicated on endless individual consumption, took its place. This story of incredible ingenuity and villainy begins in the Doge's palace in medieval Venice and ends with Jeff Bezos aboard his own spacecraft. Mark Stoll's revolutionary account places environmental factors at the heart of capitalism's progress and reveals the long shadow of its terrible consequences.
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• 1. Introduction
• 2. Malaysian Economy, Income Distribution and Public Expenditure
• 3. Social Accounting Matrix as a Framework to Analyze the Impact of Public Expenditure on Income Distribution
• 4. Analysis on the Impact of Public Expenditure on Income Distribution
• 5. Implications for Policy in Public Expenditure
• Appendix I. Full Form of Public Expenditure.
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A unique study on the impact of public expenditure allocations in achieving income equality goals in Malaysia.
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• 1.Introduction
• 2. Economic Development and Nationalism
• 3. Nationalism in Ancient China: hegemony in the Spring-Autumn Period
• 4. Nationalism in the Song Dynasty
• 5. The Establishment of the Qing Dynasty
• 6. The Qing Dynasty Was the Choice of Ancient Chinese
• 7. The First Opium War
• 8. The Second Opium War
• 9. China's Loss of Territories at the End of the Qing Dynasty
• 10. The Boxer War
• 11. Reforms at the End of the Qing Dynasty
• 12. Why Did the Qing Dynasty Collapse?
• 13. The Second Sino-Japanese War
• 14. The Chinese Communist Party, the Soviet Union, and the Korean War
• 15. The 1962 Sino-Indian War
• 16. The 1979 Sino-Vietnamese War
• 17. The Bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade
• 18. Dispute over the Diaoyu/ Senkaku Islands
• 19. Epilogue: toward a Theory of "Optimal Nationalism".
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This book analyzes Chinese nationalism from the perspective of social economics. It posits a conceptual framework in which national status is treated as a "luxury" while material consumption is considered as a "necessity" in people's preferences, which implies that popular nationalism tends to increase with economic development. The book extensively uses the tools of game theory and behavioral economics to analyze inter-ethnical and international conflicts in historical and contemporary China. The author's economic approach to the subject of nationalism brings fresh and critical insights into the Chinese historical events and relations with foreign countries. For example, it helps resolve the following puzzles: Why did most Chinese support an ethnic minority, the Manchus, to be their ruler after the collapse of the Ming dynasty? In the Boxer Rebellion, why did the Qing dynasty declare war against more than eight foreign powers when it knew well that any of the countries could defeat China easily? What are the fundamental causes of the 1962 Sino-Indian War and the 1979 Sino-Vietnamese War? Who is responsible for the bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade? This book attempts to answer the questions based on the theories of social economics and rational choice, which will interest those researching on nationalism, China studies, international relations, history and political economy.
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• Introduction.- 1: Water Resources from a Global Perspective.- 2: Necessity of IWRM and Water Services.- 3: South Africa's Continued Freshwater Decline and Current State.- 4: Decline in Informed Water Management
• 5: Continued Lack of Water Service Delivery.- 6: Progressive Deterioration of Water Quality.- 7: Main Issues Requiring Attention and Addressing Continued Deterioration.- 8: Transforming the Predicament into Problems.
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The book provides a critical evaluation of South Africa's freshwater resources to illustrate the way in which its freshwater resources, water access, services and infrastructure have continued to decline over the past three decades. The continued decline of water governance, management, water service delivery, dilapidated water infrastructure, dysfunctional local governments and overall excessive water degradation is illustrated and emphasized using real-life examples and case studies from various contexts within the country. The main argument of the book is that South Africa's freshwater resources have declined to such an extent that it can be described as a predicament. Questionable water governance decisions and reactive water management practices have led to no improvement and/or increased degradation of freshwater resources. An overall lack of service delivery exists across the country, in various contexts, leading to further water and social decline. An inter-disciplinary evaluation of South Africa's current water predicament is provided, major water crises are prioritized, and suitable recommendations are given to transform its predicament into problems which can be addressed. Suitable background information is given to emphasize the necessity of good water governance, management, and service delivery. South Africa's freshwater resources are evaluated with specific focus on the decline of informed water governance, management, service delivery and water quality. Factors requiring urgent attention are determined and suitable recommendations and/or actions are provided. An evaluation and overall synthesis focused on the transformation of the predicament into problems is provided. Primary water problems are prioritized according to urgency and suitable recommendations are given to assist in transforming the country's current complex water predicament into "simpler" water problems. Political will, collaboration with researchers, stakeholders, non-governmental organizations, and cooperation of civil society is required. South Africa's already scarce freshwater resources and decaying infrastructure will persist and possibly collapse if no major actions or interventions are implemented. .
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• Introduction
• The Poor and British Development Discourse in Africa, 1909-1970s
• The Land-poverty Nexus in Colonial Malawi, 1930s-1965
• Whose Interests? The State, Industry, and Rural Development, 1930s-1953
• Confronting Poverty: The State, ODM and World Bank Triad, 1960s-1970s
• Experts, Planners, and the Tampered Rural Development, 1960s-1981
• Malawi's Foreign Policy and the Fruitless Search for Investment Capital, 1960s-1980
• Conclusion: Some Reflections on the State and the War on Poverty

"This book examines the discourse of development in Malawi and how it unfolded through a milliard of experts and institutions that expressed interest in the plight of the poor and yet did little to achieve their goals between the 1930s and 1983"-- Provided by publisher

• Chapter 1. Sustainable Qatar.- Chapter 2. The Evolvement of Qatar's Environmental Sustainability Policy: The Strategies, Regulations, and Institutions.- Chapter 3. Law and Governance Innovations on Sustainability in Qatar: Current Approaches and Future Directions.- Chapter 4. FIFA World Cup 2022 as a Catalyst for Environmental Sustainability in Qatar.- Chapter 5. Qatar Foundations: A Sustainability Innovator.- Chapter 6. Qatar's Energy Policy and the Transition Towards a Renewable and Carbon-Neutral Future.- Chapter 7. Qatar in the Energy Transition: Low Carbon Economy Challenges and Opportunities.- Chapter 8. A Systems Perspective on the Sustainable Development of Qatar
• Chapter 9. Sea Level Rise and the National Security Challenge of Sustainable Urban Adaptation in Doha and other Arab Coastal Cities.- Chapter 10. Assessing and Reporting Potential Environmental Risks Associated with Reefing Oil Platform During Decommissioning in Qatar.- Chapter 11. The Domestic Water Sector in Qatar.- Chapter 12. Contribution of Non-Profit Organizations to Food Security Sustainability in the State of Qatar.- Chapter 13. Terrestrial Biodiversity in Arid Environments: One Global Component of Climate Crisis Resilience.- Chapter 14. Doha as a 15-Minute City - An Urban Fareej.- Chapter 15. Post-Oil Urbanism: A Need for Smart and Sustainable Urban Development Strategies and Framework in the Gulf States.- Chapter 16. Towards the Circular Qatari Zero-Waste Management Sector.- Chapter 17. Education for Sustainable Development in Qatar.- Chapter 18. Developing A Vibrant Entrepreneurship Ecosystem in Qatar: A Sustainable Pathway Toward the Knowledge-based Economy?.- Chapter 19. Pathways for a Sustainable Future. .
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This open access book provides a topical overview of the key sustainability issues in Qatar, focusing on environmental sustainability from a socio-political perspective. The transition to a sustainable Qatar requires engagement with diverse areas of social-political, human, and environmental development. On the environmental aspects, the contributors address climate change, food security, water reuse and desalination, energy, and biodiversity. The socio-political section examines state strategy and regulation, the place of environmental law and geopolitics and sustainability innovators and catalysts. The human section considers economics, sustainability education, the knowledge economy, and waste management. In doing so, the book demarcates the ways in which the country encounters and grapples with significant challenges and delves into the range of options for future pathways to sustainability in Qatar. Relevant to policymakers and scholars in energy and environment, urban and developmental studies, as well as the arenas of politics, climate change and policy, this book is a landmark collection on environmental policy in the Gulf and beyond.
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This book traces the development and impact of regional economic communities (RECs) in Africa and addresses a timely question: do REC members, and the REC itself, positively influence member states' behaviors towards other members and more broadly, regionally and continentally due to REC membership? 'Changing member states' behaviors' is measured across three 'interconnected, fundamental dimensions of societal-systems' proposed by Marshall and Elzinga Marshall in CSP's Global Repot 2017. These are i) the persistence of conflict or its counterpoint, achieving peace, ii) fostering democratization and better governance, and iii) achieving socio-economic development and (as proposed by this research, a fourth dimension), iv) being active participants in multilateralism? Is membership in a REC ultimately beneficial to the member and other countries in the region? While there are no clear and obvious - at least, discernible traditional - benefits such as increase in trade (perhaps because Africa's overall trade relative to the world is about 3 percent), there are other non trade benefits (e.g., decrease in conflict, coercion to take certain actions towards peace and refrain from others, coups and wars) presenting in REC member states. These in/actions, abilities, coercions, exclusions and cooperation instances are outlined and discussed in the book. Stephen M. Magu is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Norfolk State University, USA. Stephen holds a PhD in International Studies (2013, ODU), a Master of Social Work degree (2007, WashU) degree from Washington University in St. Louis and a Bachelor of Education (Arts) degree from Kenyatta University (1999, KU).

• 1. Introduction: Tunisia's Economic and Social Outcomes in Comparative Perspective
• 2. Structural Transformation and Long Term Growth in Tunisia and across Sample Countries
• 3. A Historical Perspective on Tunisia' Development: Initial Conditions, Strategies and Policies
• 4. Why Has Tunisia Been More Successful in Growth and Development than Other MENA Countries?
• 5. Why Has Tunisia Not Done as Well in Economic Growth and Economic Development as the Most Successful East Asian Countries?
• 6. A Political Economy Analysis of the Balance over time Between the Roles of the State, Markets and the Private Sector
• 7. Uprisings, Democracy and Transition
• 8. Conclusions.
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This book identifies the differences in growth and development, and the various factors lying behind them, across both Middle East and North African (MENA) and East Asian countries over the 1960-2020 period. It considers a very wide range of factors, compares initial situations, institutions, and government policies, the dynamic responses to changing circumstances, and discusses the inability of the governments of the MENA region to achieve not only political reform, but also the kinds of economic reform that would allow their citizens to prosper in an increasingly globalized world. The book focuses on Tunisia. Since its independence in 1956 until 2010, Tunisia had considerable success relative to many other MENA countries, but was somewhat less successful relative to East Asian countries. Since 2010, however, while transitioning away from autocracy to democracy, it has been in rather serious economic decline. The book highlights how both the factors identified as enabling Tunisia's initial success and those leading to its subsequent decline can provide many useful insights for improving the management of economic development across the whole MENA region and perhaps also to developing countries throughout the world.
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"From iconic leader Bozoma Saint John, comes a memoir of grief, and one woman's drive to thrive in the face of loss. When Bozoma Saint John's husband, Peter Saint John, died of cancer, she made one big decision: to live life with urgency. Saint John was no stranger to adversity, having lost her college boyfriend to suicide, navigated an interracial marriage, grieved a child born prematurely--a process that led to her and Peter's separation--and coparented the daughter she and Peter shared. When Peter knew his cancer was terminal, he gave Bozoma a short list of things to do: cancel the divorce, and fix the wrongs immediately. In The Urgent Life, Bozoma takes readers through the dizzying, numbing days of grief, and the courage which it sparked in her to live life in accordance with her deepest values time and time again. We witness Saint John's journey forward through multiple griefs, as she works through life as a single parent and builds a truly remarkable career. Saint John's story is extraordinary, but her grief is not uncommon, and her courage is sure to touch any reader who has loved, mourned and found a path through loss and grief, as well as anyone who's struggled to live life to its fullest"-- Provided by publisher

• Introduction : welfare without the welfare state
• An anti-mythology
• Milton Friedman's negative income tax and the monetization of poverty
• Cash triumphs : America after the New Deal order
• The politics of postwork in postwar Europe
• Rethinking global development at the end of history
• Epilogue : basic income in the technopopulist age.

"A sweeping intellectual history of the welfare state's policy-in-waiting From Thomas More to Thomas Paine, Milton Friedman to Mark Zuckerberg, centuries of public figures have hailed the power of government payments as a tool for advancing social justice. For some advocates, basic income is a moral imperative, a policy with potential to upend structural inequalities; for others, it's a market-friendly version of the welfare state that doesn't constrain capitalism. By appealing differently to different political sensibilities, basic income has persisted in the political imagination for centuries. In this deeply erudite and original work, Anton Jäger and Daniel Zamora offer the first historical examination of basic income as a policy of convenience--and, critically, as an intellectual backstop for the shortcomings of capitalism. With modern origins in works of neoliberals like Friedrich Hayek, basic income was conceived as a form of market-friendly welfare state-a safety net around capitalism that wouldn't impinge on capitalism. Although neoliberals failed to make the idea a reality, they succeeded in seeding a fascination that would permeate all corners of late-century capitalism, from supply-side Democrats to neoclassical economists and barons of Silicon Valley. Basic income, Jäger and Zamora show, is no mere political sideshow. Amid societies' ongoing search for market-friendly utopianism, it may be a policy whose time has finally come"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction : welfare without the welfare state
• An anti-mythology
• Milton Friedman's negative income tax and the monetization of poverty
• Cash triumphs : America after the New Deal order
• The politics of postwork in postwar Europe
• Rethinking global development at the end of history
• Epilogue : basic income in the technopopulist age.

"A sweeping intellectual history of the welfare state's policy-in-waiting From Thomas More to Thomas Paine, Milton Friedman to Mark Zuckerberg, centuries of public figures have hailed the power of government payments as a tool for advancing social justice. For some advocates, basic income is a moral imperative, a policy with potential to upend structural inequalities; for others, it's a market-friendly version of the welfare state that doesn't constrain capitalism. By appealing differently to different political sensibilities, basic income has persisted in the political imagination for centuries. In this deeply erudite and original work, Anton Jäger and Daniel Zamora offer the first historical examination of basic income as a policy of convenience--and, critically, as an intellectual backstop for the shortcomings of capitalism. With modern origins in works of neoliberals like Friedrich Hayek, basic income was conceived as a form of market-friendly welfare state-a safety net around capitalism that wouldn't impinge on capitalism. Although neoliberals failed to make the idea a reality, they succeeded in seeding a fascination that would permeate all corners of late-century capitalism, from supply-side Democrats to neoclassical economists and barons of Silicon Valley. Basic income, Jäger and Zamora show, is no mere political sideshow. Amid societies' ongoing search for market-friendly utopianism, it may be a policy whose time has finally come"-- Provided by publisher.

"This book intends to examine the relationship between East Asia and Southeast Asia across three themes: historical perspectives, economic flows of capital and people, and socio-cultural connections. While a substantial number of chapters in the book focus on overseas Chinese (living in Indonesia) and their connections with China and Taiwan historically and contemporarily, they also provide in-depth knowledge of international relationship between East Asia and Southeast Asia. Part One, 'Contending Regional Approaches', consists of four chapters that help readers understand the involvement of East Asia from a in historical context. The first chapter on Taiwan before 1975 is followed by a chapter on Taiwan's strategy toward Southeast Asia after the 1980s. The remaining two chapters focus on China-Southeast Asia and Japan-Southeast Asia relations. Part Two, 'Economic Flows of Capital & People', consists of six chapters that mainly examine the flow of capital and people between Indonesia and Taiwan from the colonial period to the present and how this flow changed both societies. Part Three, 'Socio-Cultural Connections', consists of three chapters. This part is a unique contribution to the scholarship that focuses on the transformation of both traditional and popular culture among Southeast Asia, China, and Taiwan by focusing on different agents"-- Provided by publisher