Goto, K., T. Endo, and A. Ito. 2020. The Asian Economy: Contemporary Issues and Challenges, Routledge.
The book is a key reading which provides a comprehensive and systematic overview of the contemporary Asian economy. The book focuses on the structural changes that are rapidly transforming the regional economic landscape in the 21st century. It highlights the concomitant challenges that have arisen, and [...]
Endo, Tamaki. 2014. Living with Risk: Precarity & Bangkok’s Urban Poor, NUS Press in association with Kyoto University Press.
The informal economy in Bangkok, Thailand, offers upward mobility but is fraught with risk. For members of the urban lower class, residence and occupation are closely inter-connected. Shifts in priorities in housing, occupation and education as family circumstances change affect the way they deploy their limited [...]
