Institutions of higher education engaged in teaching and research have come to occupy an important place in the knowledge production and knowledge transfer. These institutions are now seen as frontiers of innovation and in capitalizing knowledge assets contributing to economic progress, and...

Compared to Southeast Asia, Dhaka city represents an apparent anomaly: a rapidly growing metropolis with relatively little change in early marriage practices, with 51 percent of 15-19 year-old females in 2000 already married. The rapid influx of rural poor families to Dhaka has led to a rapid...

Multinational firms and large local firms in India have sought to implement meritocracy in the Indian IT industry by hiring only those professionals with the most competitive credentials. These firms select top degree holders in various engineering fields and re-train them as software engineers....

The ways in which humanitarian aid organisations respond to natural disasters contribute significantly to how communities negotiate and endure the loss of family, homes, and livelihoods in disaster-affected areas. When the chaos of a natural disaster occurs, gender is often ignored in the...

What does being Catholic mean to religiously involved Filipino students? Drawing from qualitative research with undergraduates involved in campus-based Catholic organisations, this article argues that their religious identity is best characterised in terms of a reflexive spirituality. Reflexive...

In September 2006, a coalition of political forces spearheaded by the army removed the Thai prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, by overthrowing parliamentary democracy. Elections which restored parliamentary government fourteen months later were a contest between the coup generals and the man...

The implementation of new national laws on decentralisation and self-determination in Eastern Indonesia provides the case study to examine the various dilemmas resulting from the human right to culture such as integration versus exclusion, cultural flexibility versus codification, and...

This paper, originally the 15th James C. Jackson Memorial Lecture, argues the case for considering Malaysia and Singapore as immigrant societies, and analyzing their dynamic by comparison with New World countries such as Australia rather than with Asian neighbours. The historical demography of...

Two divergent views confront each other from the perspective of the management of family affairs by left behind wives due to husbands' out-migration. Some opine that left behind wives takes an active role in the management of family affairs whereas others believe that many are confronted for the...

This paper examines the role of the bank lending channel of monetary policy in India during the global financial crisis, especially since the collapse of Lehman Brothers in late 2008. Contrary to popular perceptions and in contrast to the United States, the paper shows that, following the...