Economic Stress, Human Capital, and Families in Asia: Policy and Challenges

This book presents recent findings about the consequences and policy implications of economic stress for human capital development and family well-being in Asia. The scope of the chapters goes beyond the impact of current financial crisis to include the effect of economic deprivation families in Asia experience as a result of job loss, low-wage employment, …

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WPS 211 ‘The Fundamental Issue is Anti-colonialism, Not Merger’: Singapore’s “Progressive Left”, Operation Coldstore, and the Creation of Malaysia

Decolonisation often involved picking from competing nationalist visions for the shape of the postcolonial nation-state. The visions which lost out are no less important for their impact on decolonisation and the nation-state, but they are often poorly understood. In Singapore, the rise of Singapore’s “progressive left” gave the opportunity and drove the timing for the …

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Asian Population Studies (Vol. 9 No. 3)

Asian Population Studies is the first international population journal to focus exclusively on population issues in Asia. The journal publishes original research on matters related to population in this large, complex and rapidly changing region, and welcomes substantive empirical analyses, theoretical works, applied research and contributions to methodology. Topics covered include all branches of population …

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WPS 210 The Urban Transition of Environmental Disaster Governance in Asia

The increasing frequency and severity of environmental disasters in Asia are highly correlated with the rapid urban transition now taking place in this world region. Five types of urban transition effects are identified to explain how the urbanization of disasters calls for fundamental changes in approaches to disaster prevention, response, adaptation and resilience. The effects include agglomeration …

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WPS 209 The Transformation of Child Labor in Andhra Pradesh, India: Lessons for State-NGO Collaboration

Between 1991-2011, the state of Andhra Pradesh, once the state with the biggest child workforce in India made rapid strides in decreasing child labor. The decrease in child labor can largely be explained by an active collaboration between a grass roots movement started by M.V. Foundation, a local NGO, and the bureaucracy of Andhra Pradesh. …

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Pacific Affairs – Special Issue: Decentralized Governance and Urban Change in Asia (Vol. 86 No. 4)

This special issue explores the dynamics between decentralized governance and urban transformation in Asia. The case studies in this collection move beyond an examination of local urban dynamics as simply a product of decentralizing reforms (even if they have been directly affected by such reforms) and concentrate on institution-building, problem solving, participation and contestation in …

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East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal – Special Issue – Asian Biopoleis: Practice, Place and Life (Vol. 7 No.1)

Our title, “Asian Biopoleis: Practice, Place, and Life,” is also the name of a research initiative under way at the National University of Singapore (NUS) since 2010, and is the theme of this issue.The NUS project is likely the first comprehensive social science and humanities research collaboration, housed at a major university and funded by …

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WPS 208 Southeast Asia in the Suishu: A Translation of Memoir 47 with Notes and Commentary

Memoir 47 of the Suishu 隋書 (History of the Sui Dynasty) documents the kingship, regalia, official titles, geography, customs, and curiosities of four early Southeast Asian polities: Linyi, Chitu, Zhenla, and Poli.  With the exception of some scene-setting background information regarding Linyi, most of the material can be dated, with varying degrees of certainty, to …

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WPS 207 Transnational Migration and Changing Care Arrangements for Left-Behind Children in Southeast Asia: A Selective Literature Review in Relation to the CHAMPSEA Study

Recent increases in the volume and diversity of transnational labour migration within and beyond Southeast Asia –  and in particular the feminisation of these movements –suggest that millions of left-behind children are growing up for part or all of their young lives in the absence of a migrant father, a migrant mother, or both. Gender-differentiated …

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