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raged in Indonesia and parts of Malaysia in 1997, and about the noxious haze covering the whole region, but only a few … concentrates on Western Indonesia, Malaysia and the very south of Thailand. …
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Penang has always been a focal point, absorbing knowledge (and popular culture) from civilizations to the East and West. In modern Penang the pattern of cultural contacts has changed over time. Research institutes and universities in Penang cooperate with foreign partners to produce research...
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This paper analyses how various actors have used potent urban symbols to assert their vision of a modern, globalized Malay identity in the construction of the recently founded knowledge city of Cyberjaya, part of the flagship Multimedia Super Corridor project. As the state controls both the land...
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While envy has been studied extensively in adults, the question how envy develops during childhood has not received much attention. To address this gap, we report the results of an artefactual field experiment that investigates and compares the prevalence and development of destructive envy in...
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Ist Südostasien anders? Dieser Frage geht Rainer Schweickert in der Kieler Studie 306 nach. Seine Analyse der Leistungsbilanzen, ihrer Teilkomponenten und ihrer Determinanten seit Anfang der 70er Jahre sowie der krisenhaften Entwicklungen in den 90er Jahren weist nach, dass diese Vermutung in...
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Minimum wage policy supported by a strong social policy is an efficient mechanism against poverty and income erosion of the poorest households. Minimum wage is one of the instruments which can control wage dispersion and in this way reduce income inequality. It can also help to prevent a general...
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wirtschaftlich aufstrebenden Malaysia waren Anlass, die Rahmenbedingungen für diese Entwicklung genauer zu analysieren. Die von der …, sondern auf die sehr speziellen wirtschaftlichen, gesellschaftlichen und bildungspolitischen Rahmenbedingungen in Malaysia bzw … Entwicklung in Malaysia wurde der Fokus auf rezente Literatur und Datenquellen gelegt. Umfassende Recherchen im Internet, wobei …
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The present study employs the state of the art bias-corrected Malmquist Productivity Index method to examine the sources of efficiency and productivity of the foreign and domestic banks operating in the Malaysian banking sector. The preferred methodology enables us to isolate efforts to catch up...
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rates in Malaysia induced by the Chinese lunar calendar, we document a 12.7-percent rise in births among ethnic Chinese in …
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