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 …

WPS 210 The Urban Transition of Environmental Disaster Governance in Asia Read More »

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. …

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

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 …

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

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 …

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 Read More »