Author : Jamie S. Davidson
Release : 2015-01-22
Genre : Political Science
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Indonesia's Changing Political Economy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Indonesia's Changing Political Economy write by Jamie S. Davidson. This book was released on 2015-01-22. Indonesia's Changing Political Economy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Indonesia is Southeast Asia's largest economy and freest democracy yet vested interests and local politics serve as formidable obstacles to infrastructure reform. In this critical analysis of the politics inhibiting infrastructure investment, Jamie S. Davidson utilizes evidence from his research, press reports and rarely used consultancy studies to challenge mainstream explanations for low investment rates and the sluggish adoption of liberalizing reforms. He argues that obstacles have less to do with weak formal institutions and low fiscal capacities of the state than with entrenched, rent-seeking interests, misaligned central-local government relations, and state-society struggles over land. Using a political-sociological approach, Davidson demonstrates that 'getting the politics right' matters as much as getting the prices right or putting the proper institutional safeguards in place for infrastructure development. This innovative account and its conclusions will be of interest to students and scholars of Southeast Asia and policymakers of infrastructure investment and economic growth.