State Structure, Policy Formation, and Economic Development in Southeast Asia

Notes

1  Introduction: institutional settings of state power and the policy process

1  The book largely adopts the prevalent categorizations of countries in East Asia. East Asia includes the following: economic giants China and Japan; newly industrialized countries of South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong Kong; the middle-income developing countries of Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines; and, low-income developing countries of Vietnam, Myanmar, Lao, and Cambodia. Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines have been identified as the region's “emerging economies,” depicting both their level of development and relative openness to foreign capital. See, for instance, Gill et al.’s (2007) categorization, p. 40.

Again, as ...