ABSTRACT
The activities of the New Right in restructuring transport in Britain are being re-echoed throughout the cities and regions of South-East Asia. Proselytization by missionaries from the World Bank, bolstered by the Asian Development Bank, bilateral aid donors and private bankers, has seen the ideas of the New Right take root. The debate in South-East Asia, however, has been devoid of the usual right wing versus left wing ideology (Rowley, 1985). Basically, recommendations for restructuring state-owned transport enterprises, supplying transport services and infrastructure, are the pragmatic reactions of politicians and bureaucrats to the problems being experienced by state-owned parastatals (Rimmer, 1986; 1988).
