Since Malaysia imposed controls on capital outflows during the 1997-1998 financial crisis, the debate on capital controls has carried on. This begs the question of what Vietnam should learn from her neighbor's experience. ...
Tsai, Huei-Ting; Liu, Tzu-Ming(Honolulu: East-West Center, 2006)
Indigenous Taiwanese, the minority population in Taiwan, have one-third the annual income of, and a lifespan ten years shorter than, other Taiwanese populations. Despite three decades of government support including free ...
Malaysia's present population of 26 million is ethnically classified under the categories of "Bumiputera," "Chinese," "Indian," and "Others." These ethnic classifications of "Malay," "Chinese," "Indian," and "Others" mask ...
Smith, Kristie N.(Honolulu: East-West Center, 2006)
Socio-economic development in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) has significantly impacted Uyghur culture. Proponents of the Chinese Western Development initiatives claim improved quality of life and ...
Lavado, Rouselle F.(Honolulu: East-West Center, 2006)
This paper attempts to provide some empirical evidence on the effects of social security on savings mobilization of households. While it has been empirically established in developed countries that pension system has ...
This paper historically and analytically examines the official records of the Huang Chao rebellion in order to better understand both what avenues of resistance were open to common people during the Tang dynasty and how ...
This paper examines how grassroots movements for the urban poor in South Korea have been transformed in the context of neoliberalism. It is based on fieldwork (September 1999 April 2001) in Nangok, which was one of the ...
Manlagînit, Ma. Chelo V.; Lamberte, Mario B.(Honolulu: East-West Center, 2005)
This paper examines the impacts of competition policy reforms on the efficiency of the Philippine commercial banking system. It uses the stochastic frontier approach to come up with estimates of profit efficiency and cost ...
Gunasingham, Brindha(Honolulu: East-West Center, 2005)
This research examines whether recent stock market crashes have affected the inter-relationships between 12 equity markets in the Asia Pacific, thereby affecting investment decisions across the region. One of the major ...
Manlagînit, Ma. Chelo V.; Lamberte, Mario B.(Honolulu: East-West Center, 2005)
This paper first examines the extent of cost and profit inefficiencies of the Philippine credit cooperative system using stochastic frontier analysis (SFA). Then, it looks into the effects of certain variables on the cost ...
Ciencia, Alejandro N.(Honolulu: East-West Center, 2006)
In January 2004, the Philippine Supreme Court nullified provisions of the Philippine Mining Act of 1995 which allowed foreign mining firms to operate in the country. In December of the same year, the Court reversed its ...
Devastating forest fires struck Indonesia in 1997 and 1998, burning nearly 10 million hectares of forest and creating an unprecedented ecological disaster. These fires were immediately provoked by severe drought, itself ...