Michael L. Ross

Timber Booms and Institutional Breakdown in Southeast Asia

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the breakdown of the institutions that govern natural resource exports in developing states.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 528g
• ISBN-13: 9780521791670
• ISBN-10: 0521791677
• Artikelnr.: 26953556

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: three puzzles
2. The problem of resource booms
3. Explaining institutional breakdown
4. The Philippines: the legal slaughter of the forests
5. Sabah, Malaysia: a new state of affairs
6. Sarawak, Malaysia: an almost uncontrollable instinct
7. Indonesia: putting the forests to 'better use'
8. Conclusion: rent seeking and rent-seizing.