Routledge Research on Asian Development
About the Book Series
Welcoming contributions from new and established scholars worldwide, this series publishes high quality, interdisciplinary, original scholarship on development issues in Asia. Themes of the series include economic development, aid, migration and displacement, sustainability, globalization, gender, environment, social movements, climate change, political economy, health, education, human security, and urbanization.
Routledge Research on Asian Development will be of interest to scholars of Development Studies, Asian Studies, International Studies, Environmental Studies, Sociology, Politics, Geography, Economics, and Anthropology.
Chinese Development in Late-Socialist Laos: Negotiating Debt and Desire
1st Edition
By Phill Wilcox
October 16, 2025
This book uses the case of Chinese development in Laos to ask what development is and why it happens as it does. Development may seem self-evidently positive, but it is fraught with different agendas and seemingly competing visions of what so-called developing countries should become and how they...
Rethinking World Bank Influence: Governance Reforms and the Ritual Aid Dance in Indonesia
1st Edition
By D. Brent Edwards Jr.
October 09, 2024
Why is it so hard for international development organizations—even ones as well-resourced and influential as the World Bank—to generate and sustain change in the way things are done in those countries where they work? Despite what, in many cases, is decades of investment and effort, why do partner ...
China's Economic Development: Decoding and Reframing its Rise
1st Edition
By Lee Pei May
June 21, 2024
Through a rigorous examination of “China’s rise”, Lee addresses an important question—Did China catch up? Or more specifically, can growth be automatically translated to catching up with the advanced industrialised countries or has it only allowed limited progress (if any) to be made? To answer ...
The 2006 Crisis in East Timor: Lessons for Contemporary Peacebuilding
1st Edition
By Rebecca E. Engel
May 31, 2023
This book argues that the international community must share responsibility for contributing to the conditions that resulted in violent conflict in Timor-Leste, four years after it declared independence from Indonesia. Its failure to tailor interventions to Timor-Leste’s specific political economy ...