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The Asian Aspiration
Author | : Greg Mills,Olusegun Obasanjo,Emily van der Merwe,Hailemariam Desalegn |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2020-10-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781787385061 |
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In 1960, the GDP per capita of Southeast Asian countries was nearly half of that of Africa. By 1986 the gap had closed and today the trend is reversed, with more than half of the world's poorest now living in sub Saharan Africa. Why has Asia developed while Africa lagged? The Asian Aspiration chronicles the stories of explosive growth and changing fortunes: the leaders, events and policy choices that lifted a billion people out of abject poverty within a single generation, the largest such shift in human history. The relevance of Asia's example comes as Africa is facing a population boom, which can either lead to crisis or prosperity, and as Asia is again transforming, this time out of low-cost manufacturing into hi-tech, leaving a void that is Africa's for the taking. Far from the optimistic determinism of "Africa Rising," this book calls for unprecedented pragmatism in the pursuit of African success.
The Asian Aspiration
Author | : Greg Mills,Olusegun Obasanjo,Hailemariam Desalegn,Emily van der Merwe |
Publsiher | : Hurst & Company |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : 9781787384453 |
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In 1960, the GDP per capita of Southeast Asian countries was nearly half of that of Africa. By 1986 the gap had closed and today the trend is reversed, with more than half of the world's poorest now living in sub Saharan Africa. Why has Asia developed while Africa lagged? The Asian Aspiration chronicles the stories of explosive growth and changing fortunes: the leaders, events and policy choices that lifted a billion people out of abject poverty within a single generation, the largest such shift in human history. The relevance of Asia's example comes as Africa is facing a population boom, which can either lead to crisis or prosperity, and as Asia is again transforming, this time out of low-cost manufacturing into hi-tech, leaving a void that is Africa's for the taking. Far from the optimistic determinism of Africa Rising, this book calls for unprecedented pragmatism in the pursuit of African success.
Handbook of Religion and the Asian City
Author | : Peter van der Veer |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 2015-05-19 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780520281226 |
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"Handbook of Religion and the Asian City highlights the creative and innovative role of urban aspirations in Asian world cities. It points out that urban politics and governance are often about religious boundaries and processions--in short, that public religion is politics. The essays show how projects of secularism come up against projects and ambitions of a religious nature, a particular form of contestation that takes the city as its public arena. Asian cities are sites of speculation, not only for those who invest in real estate but also for those who look for housing, for employment, and for salvation. In its potential and actual mobility, the sacred creates social space in which they all can meet. Handbook of Religion and the Asian City makes the comparative case that one cannot study the historical patterns of urbanization in Asia without paying attention to the role of religion in urban aspirations"--Provided by publisher.
Aspirations of Young Adults in Urban Asia
Author | : Mariske Westendorp,Désirée Remmert,Kenneth Finis |
Publsiher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2020-10-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781789208962 |
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Comparing first-person ethnographic accounts of young people living, working, and creating relationships in cities across Asia, this volume explores their contemporary lives, pressures, ideals, and aspirations. Delving into topical issues such as education, social inequality, family pressures, changing values, precarious employment, and political discontent, the book explores how young people are pushing boundaries and imagining their future. In this way, they explore and create the identities of their local and global surroundings.
Realities and Aspirations for Asian Youth
Author | : Taylor & Francis Group |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2020-12-18 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 0367730448 |
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This comprehensive volume explores the remarkable expansion of higher education systems and institutions in Asia in recent decades, alongside changing forms of consumerism, mobility and global economic conditions. It demonstrates how recent changes in training, education and employment have sparked new aspirations for possible and desirable livelihoods among the younger generation, while also generating fresh problems and tensions. The authors in this volume critically interrogate the links between education and employment; normative understandings about youth and adulthood; as well as personal, national and regional level aspirations for economic 'success'. Comparative chapters on Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Nepal, Singapore and Taiwan illustrate how young people are having to forge innovative pathways into the future, while being confronted with ever increasing insecurities. Offering important insights into the kinds of education and employment landscapes that Asian youth are navigating, reworking or trying to avoid, this collection is an essential reference for students and scholars of Asian Studies, Cultural Anthropology, Development Studies, Human Geography and Youth Studies. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Children's Geographies.
Lifestyle Media in Asia
Author | : Fran Martin,Tania Lewis |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2016-05-20 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781317567387 |
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Across Asia, consumer culture is increasingly shaping everyday life, with neoliberal economic and social policies increasingly adopted by governments who see their citizens as individualised, sovereign consumers with choices about their lifestyles and identities. One aspect of this development has been the emergence of new wealthy middle classes with lifestyle aspirations shaped by national, regional and global media – especially by a range of new popular lifestyle media, which includes magazines, television and mobile and social media. This book explores how far everyday conceptions and experiences of identity are being transformed by media cultures across the region. It considers a range of different media in different Asian contexts, contrasting how the shaping of lifestyles in Asia differs from similar processes in Western countries, and assessing how the new lifestyle media represents not just a new emergent media culture, but also illustrates wider cultural and social changes in the Asian region.
The Fookien Times Philippines Yearbook
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Philippines |
ISBN | : UOM:39015046815166 |
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