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Article: Reconfiguring rural spaces and remaking rural lives in central Thailand.(Essay)
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- Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
- Article date:
- October 1, 2008
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Introduction: Grounding the Asian economic miracle
It has become normal to comment on the scale and pace of change in the growth economies of East and Southeast Asia. From the mid-1960s, when the original tiger economies--Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore--came to the world's notice, Asia has been seen as an exemplar region where economic growth really has delivered development with rising standards of living and rapidly falling rates of poverty. In 1993, the World Bank set out what it regarded as the reasons for--and the lessons of--the Asian 'miracle', and added Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand to its list of High Performing Asian Economies. (1) ...