January 31, 2017

The growing economies of the Southeast Asia have transformed themselves into middle income countries over the past few decades. Challenging Southeast Asian development: The shadows of success (Routledge, 2016) by Prof Jonathan Rigg (Department of Geography) looks at how the very success of these economies has bred new challenges, novel problems, and fresh tensions. Talking about the policy implications, the book melds various approaches to thinking about development paths, reframes Asia’s models of growth and draws out the social, environmental, political and economic side-effects that have arisen from growth. An interesting analysis of the problems that come alongside development’s achievements, this book is an important contribution to Southeast Asian Studies, Development Studies and Environmental Studies.

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