Chik Rini, a journalist based in Banda Aceh, originally reported this story in May 2002, drawing on five months’ research in Banda Aceh, Medan, Jakarta, and Lhokseumawe, including a one-month stay near Krueng Geukeuh. It […]
Recent trends in the world economy show the processes of globalization and regionalization proceeding simultaneously. Economic globalization, as measured by the ratio of foreign trade to gross domestic product (GDP), soared from 25 to 46 […]
Since 1986, when the Vietnamese government began the policy of “economic renovation” called doi moi, and especially from the early 1990s, when it opened up to the west, Vietnam has been deeply involved in globalization. The […]
The essence of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s Dual Track Policy is an effort to maintain stable economic growth: a slowdown in exports due to slackening external demand would be met with a boost in domestic […]
The economic crisis of 1997 affected everyone in Thailand, even His Majesty the King. Seeing many of his subjects suffering, he advised the Thai people to change their economic philosophy in order to cope with […]
Like other developing countries, Indonesia faces high unemployment, underemployment, and low wages. In Japan, despite great demand for unskilled labor created by the reluctance of highly qualified young workers to take blue collar jobs, Japanese […]
Kyoto Review recently talked with Ms. Aoki Reiko about problems faced by migrants and the Japanese laws that affect them. Aoki works with two NGOs in Japan’s Kansai region: Asian People Together, an affiliate of […]
From the end of World War Π until the mid 1980s, the Japanese government did very little to promote the export of Japanese cultural industries and products to the world – especially to East and […]
The Mystery of the Mekong River During the cool and dry season of 2001, I sailed down the Mekong River on a 200-kilometer journey beginning in southern China, passing through Burmese and Lao territory on […]
As a developing country, the Philippines has a large informal sector comprised of micro-enterprises. Many of these are severely resource-constrained small vendors operating in public markets, whose survival in business relies heavily on access to […]
The Philippine Economy: Development, Policies, and ChallengesArsenio Balisacan and Hal Hill, editorsQuezon City / Ateneo University Press / 2003 This edited volume represents the latest important update to the study of problems of Philippine economic […]
IDEAs: International Development Economics Associates www.networkideas.org IDEAs, or International Development Economics Associates, is a pluralist network of progressive economists across the world. It seeks to undertake and promote a range of activities including research, teaching, dissemination, […]
Indonesian Politics and Society: A ReaderDavid Bourchier and Vedi Hadiz, editorsLondon and New York / RoutledgeCurzon / 2003 For many years an essential work for students and indeed teachers of Indonesian politics, both those with […]
Local Power and Politics in Indonesia: Decentralisation and DemocratisationEdward Aspinall and Greg Fealy, editorsSingapore / Institute of Southeast Asain Studies / 2003 Indonesia’s Population: Ethnicity and Religion in a Changing Political LandscapeLeo Suryadinata, Evi N. […]
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