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Urbanization Trends in Southeast Asia: Some Issues for Policy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Gavin W. Jones
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Levels of urbanization in Southeast Asia are low by world standards, even by developing country standards. Figures taken from recent U.N. estimates are presented in Table 1. They take advantage of the 1980 round of censuses and differ substantially from estimates made five years earlier. Even so, inter-country comparability remains problematic, as indicated by the inclusion of an alternative set of estimates for Thailand and Peninsular Malaysia which the writer believes provides data somewhat more comparable with the other countries than the data employed by the U.N.

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Journal of Southeast Asian Studies , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , March 1988 , pp. 137 - 154
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Copyright © The National University of Singapore 1988

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