Mobilities of Labour and Capital in Asia

Mobilities of Labour and Capital in Asia
Author: Preet S. Aulakh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2020-02-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1108482325

Explores the mobilities of capital and labour in the contemporary global economy. Using an analytical framework around three dimensions related to the forms, institutions, and spatialities of mobility, it examines the interrelationships between mobilities of capital and labour at multiple levels of analyses.

The Politics of NGOs in Southeast Asia

The Politics of NGOs in Southeast Asia
Author: Gerard Clarke
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2006-05-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1134695349

The Politics of NGOs in Southeast Asia traces the history of the emergence of NGOs in the Philippines and southeast Asia and the political factors which encouraged this. The main focus is on the period from the mid-1990s when NGOs first became a notable force in the region. It documents the complex relations between NGOs and other political actors including the state, organised religion, foreign donors, the business sector and underground insurgent groups and their impact on NGO strategy.

Struggling With Development

Struggling With Development
Author: Lynn Kwiatkowski
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 574
Release: 2019-05-20
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0429976704

Struggling with Development is a study of the complex relationships among international development, hunger, and gender in the context of political violence in the Philippines. This ethnography demonstrates that gender-specific international development, which has among its main goals the alleviation of hunger in women and children and the raising

The Philippines

The Philippines
Author: James K. Boyce
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages: 428
Release: 1993-07-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780824815226

This book analyzes the Philippine economy from the 1960s to the 1980s. During this period, the benefits of economic growth conspicuously failed to "trickle down". Despite rising per capita income, broad sectors of the Filipino population experienced deepening poverty. Professor Boyce traces this outcome to the country's economic and political structure and focuses on three elements of the government's development strategy: the "green revolution" in rice agriculture, the primacy accorded to export agriculture and forestry, and massive external borrowing. James Boyce is the author of "Agrarian Impasse in Bengal" and co-author of "A Quiet Violence: View from a Bangladesh Village".

Asian Development Experience Vol. 2

Asian Development Experience Vol. 2
Author: Yasutani Shimomura
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2004-01-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 981230200X

This volume investigates the missing link, the complicated realities of the relations between governance and development through case studies of ASEAN countries. Its main objective is to explore a theoretical framework to overcoming the limitations of mainstream approaches by employing case studies on decentralization, crisis management, corporate governance and foreign aid management of both public and private entities. From the beginning of the 1990s onwards, the international aid community has increasingly stressed that good governance, together with democracy and protection of basic human rights, is indispensable for sustainable economic development. The terms, however, are complex, broad, and arguable. They largely refer to discipline of government institutions and the capacity of the public sector. While a wide variety of empirical studies has been done on the relations between good governance and development, it is still unclear how the differences in governance influence development performance in a real world.

A Changeless Land

A Changeless Land
Author: David G. Timberman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2016-09-16
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1315487152

First Published in 1992. This book examines the elements of continuity and change in Philip pine politics and government over the last quarter century. The period covered, from the early 1960s through 1988, encompasses three distinct phases: the decline of traditional elite democracy, the imposition of martial law and constitutional authoritarianism under Ferdinand Marcos, and, most recently, the restoration of democracy under Corazon Aquino.

The Philippines

The Philippines
Author: David Joel Steinberg
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2018-02-19
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0429974019

A unified nation with a single people, the Philippines is also a highly fragmented, plural society. Divided between uplander and lowlander, rich and poor, Christian and Muslim, between those of one ethnic, linguistic, and geographic region and those of another, the nation is a complex mosaic formed by conflicting forces of consensus and national identity and of division and instability.It is not possible to comprehend the many changes in the Philippines?such as the rise and fall of Ferdinand Marcos or the revolution that toppled him?without an awareness of the religious, cultural, and economic forces that have shaped the history of these islands. These forces formed the focus of the first edition of The Philippines. Of that 1982 edition, the late Benigno Aquino Jr., noted that ?anyone wanting to understand the Philippines and the Filipinos today must include this book in his '`'must' reading list.?The fourth edition has been updated through the final years of the Ramos presidency, and contains a new section on the impact of President Estrada.