This multi-disciplinary volume provides a critical examination of corporate governance reform in Southeast Asia especially after the Asian financial crisis in 1997. The weaknesses in the corporate sector, such as poor investment structure, weak legal and accounting systems, faulty financial...

This book discusses and identifies the modernizing trends, which have changed Southeast Asian countries in varying ways. After an overview of current concepts of modernity, the following chapters introduce issues of education, citizenship and ethnicity, religion, the emergence of the middle...

By analysing foreign direct investment (FDI) in a macroeconomic framework, this study throws new light on various channels through which FDI influences saving, investment, growth, and the balance of payments on current account. The finding that FDI has differential impacts in a sample of five...

This study investigates the activities of small and medium entrepreneurs in the manufacturing sector in South and Southeast Asia, to examine their actual and potential contribution to social and economic development in their countries. The factors that encourage or hinder this contribution are...

pt. 1. The latest wave in globalization : long-term and comparative perspectives -- pt. 2. Capitalizing on (offshore) services in the shadow of giants : a look beyond India and the Philippines -- pt. 3. Labour and industrial organization in the latest wave of globalization : challenges,...

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Contributors -- I. THE CONTEXT FOR CHANGE -- 1. The Relevance of ASEAN: Crisis and Change / Tay, Simon S. C. / Estanislao, Jesus P. -- 2. ASEAN’s Past and the Challenges Ahead: Aspects of Politics and Security / Wanandi, Jusuf -- 3. ASEAN...

James C. Scott places the critical problem of the peasant household-subsistence-at the center of this study. The fear of food shortages, he argues persuasively, explains many otherwise puzzling technical, social, and moral arrangements in peasant society, such as resistance to innovation, the...

This book evaluates China’s relations with sub-regional Southeast Asia through its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation framework. The book looks at domestic drivers and regional receptivity of China’s Belt and Road Initiative and also delves into the challenges...