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Bounding the Mekong: The Asian Development Bank, China, and Thailand
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 280 pages, 17 illustrations, 7 maps. BIC Classification: 1FMT; 1FPC; GTF; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Transnational economic integration has been described by globalization boosters as a rising tide that will lift all boats, an opportunity for all participants to achieve greater prosperity through a combination of political cooperation and capitalist economic competition. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has championed such rhetoric in promoting the integration of China, Southeast Asia’s formerly socialist states, and Thailand into a regional project called the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS). But while the GMS project is in fact hastening regional economic integration, Jim Glassman shows that the approach belies the ADB’s idealized description of "win-win" outcomes. The process of "actually existing ... Read more
Transnational economic integration has been described by globalization boosters as a rising tide that will lift all boats, an opportunity for all participants to achieve greater prosperity through a combination of political cooperation and capitalist economic competition. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has championed such rhetoric in promoting the integration of China, Southeast Asia’s formerly socialist states, and Thailand into a regional project called the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS). But while the GMS project is in fact hastening regional economic integration, Jim Glassman shows that the approach belies the ADB’s idealized description of "win-win" outcomes. The process of "actually existing ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Univ of Hawaii Pr
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Honolulu, HI, United States
ISBN
9780824834449
SKU
V9780824834449
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