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Inequality and Exclusion in Southeast Asia

Lee Hwok Aun,Christopher Choong

Published 2021 in Unknown venue

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Inequality and exclusion are defining problems of our times globally, regionally, nationally. In introducing this book’s impetus and formation, it is helpful to passage through these geographic and academic layers. Inequalities of opportunity, well-being, income and wealth have existed in all societies, but the past decade has seen heightened perceptions that globalized capitalist systems enrich the few at the expense of the many. Tellingly, the Millennium Development Goals 2015 specified gender equality while generally focusing on poverty and basic needs, while the Sustainable Development Goals 2030 inscribed reduction of inequality within and among countries as one of the various new goals pursuing equitable distribution of socio-economic benefits. Alongside burgeoning prosperity, uncertainty and precarity are also growing, fuelling public sentiments and popular discourses surrounding these phenomena. Social discontent arises from local, lived experiences.

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