The Politics of Marketising Asia

Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Theorising Asia’s Marketisation under Late Capitalism: Risk, Capital and the New Politics of Development....Pages 1-23
Risk, Social Protection and the World Market....Pages 24-42
The International Finance Corporation’s Transformation of Development in the Asia-Pacific: Working on, through and around the State....Pages 43-70
Regulatory States in the South: Can they Exist and Do We Want them? The Case of the Indonesian Power Sector....Pages 71-100
State-Building and Primitive Accumulation in Solomon Islands: The Unintended Consequences of Risk Mitigation at the Frontiers of Global Capitalist Expansion....Pages 101-117
Into the Deep: The World Bank Group and Mining Regimes in Laos, the Philippines and Papua New Guinea....Pages 118-144
Building Neoliberal Markets and Other Agendas: The Politics of Risk Management at AusAID....Pages 145-161
Market Building and Risk under a Regime in Transition: The Asian Development Bank in Myanmar (Burma)....Pages 162-184
Reforming the Chinese Railway Sector: The Role and Limits of International Governmental Organisations in Building Markets....Pages 185-205
Institutional Design and Quality as Determinants of Market Building: The Markets for Corporate Control in Asia....Pages 206-233
The Market Turn in Jakarta’s Water Supply: Vested Interests and Challenges of Realising the Regulatory State....Pages 234-251
Problems and Obstacles to Market Building in the Indian Energy Sector....Pages 252-266
Back Matter....Pages 267-313