ABSTRACT
Global economic integration, widening communication networks and government policies supportive of private enterprise are changing opportunities for accumulating wealth, status and power. In varying degrees throughout Asia, this process is accompanied by the development of service enterprises such as banking, insurance, legal firms and IT firms, which provide access to the resources required for a profitable connection to the wider world. This book focuses on the key role played by producer services in shaping new business areas and new patterns for social mobility, and their interdependence with the State as either a facilitator of, or an obstacle to, the emergence and flourishing of the new professions.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|20 pages
Producer services, social mobility and the state in Asia
part I|87 pages
The new economy
chapter 2|17 pages
Networking for domination
chapter 3|11 pages
The status of non-banking financial companies in India
chapter 5|26 pages
Restructuring capitalist power in the Philippines
part II|76 pages
Engineering a new middle class
chapter 7|20 pages
Brokering change, changing brokers
part III|32 pages
Producer services in transitional economies