Part I: Growth and development over the long term
1. Introduction: Southeast Asia's long transition Ian Coxhead
2. Trade, growth, and distribution in Southeast Asia, 1500-1940 Jeffrey G. Williamson
3. A century of growth, crisis, war and recovery 1870-1970 Anne Booth
4. Lucky countries? Internal and external sources of Southeast Asian growth since 1970 Tracy ThuTrang Phung, Ian Coxhead, and Chang Lian
Part II: Food, agriculture, and natural resources
5. The dynamics of agricultural development and food security in Southeast Asia: historical continuity and rapid change C. Peter Timmer
6. Natural resources, the environment and economic development in Southeast Asia Gerald Shively and Tim Smith
Part III: Trade, investment, and industrialization
7. Global production sharing, trade patterns, and industrialization in Southeast Asia Prema-chandra Athukorala and Archanun Kohpaiboon
8. Foreign direct investment in Southeast Asia Fredrik Sjöholm
9. Regional trade agreements and enterprises in Southeast Asia Ganesha Wignaraja
Part IV: Population, labor, and human capital
10. The population of Southeast Asia Gavin W. Jones
11. The determinants and long-term projectections of saving rates in Southeast Asia Charles Yuji Horioka and Akiko Terada-Hagiwara
12. Education in Southeast Asia: investments, achievements, and returns Diep Phan and Ian Coxhead
13. Internal and international migration in Southeast Asia Guntur Sugiyarto
Part V: Poverty and political economy
14. The drivers of poverty reduction Peter Warr
15. The political economy of policy reform: insights from Southeast Asia Hal Hill
Part VI: Twenty-first-century challenges
16. Dual-burdens in health and aging: emerging population challenges in Southeast Asia Jenna Nobles
17. Southeast Asian commercial policy: outward-looking regional integration Hal Hill and Jayant Menon
18. The global financial crisis and macroeconomic policy in Southeast Asia Bhanupong Nidhiprabha
19. Twenty-first century challenges for Southeast Asian economies Ian Coxhead, Thee Kian Wie, and Arief Anshory Yusuf