Preface (9) | List of Tables (11) 1. Assessing Changes in Living Standards in Southeast Asia in the Twentieth and Early Twenty-first Centuries (15) | 2. The Colonial Period: Population and Output Growth in Agricultural and Non-agricultural Sectors (41) | 3. The Colonial Period: Measures of Welfare and Changing Living Standards (69) | 4. Confronting the Challenges of Independence (107) | 5. Esti…