1. Introduction : from moneylenders to microfinance in southeast Asia / David Henley and Aditya Goenka -- 2. Rural credit market imperfections and the role of microfinance / Aditya Goenka -- 3. Old and new worlds of microfinance in Europe and Asia / Hans Dieter Seibel -- 4. Credit provision...

part Agriculture -- part Watson, The Land Laws and Land Administration of the Federated Malay States (1908) -- chapter R. G. Watson, the Land Laws and Land Administration of the Federated Malay States (1908) -- part Grist, Malaya: Agriculture, ‘Land Tenure’ (1929) -- chapter D. H....

v. 1. General introduction. Agriculture -- v. 2. Mining, trade and industry -- v. 3. The building blocks of development : governance, transport and communciations, and human and financial capital. Index.

ASEAN has a goal to create an economic community by 2015. To achieve the goal, connectivity among the member states needs to be given due importance. In 2010, ASEAN adopted the Master Plan on ASEAN Connectivity (MPAC), which looked at physical, institutional and people-to-people connectivity. It...

This report shares results of a regionwide survey undertaken in late 2007 among over 2,000 students from leading universities across ASEAN member countries. The survey addressed questions on whether youths today consider themselves to be citizens of ASEAN; whether the region's youth are...

At a time when other sources on Southeast Asia were relatively scarce, a remarkable set of reports were compiled in Nagasaki from the evidence of Chinese junk captains arriving from Southern ports. Hundreds of these reports have been preserved in Japan covering the period 1674–1723. Though...

The growth performance of East Asia's market economics over the two-and-half decades has been one of unparalleled success. In this regional comparative study of country experiences, the author demonstrates the considerable scope for complementarity between economic growth and poverty alleviation...