This work systematically charts and comparatively assesses the trend towards private higher education in Southeast Asia. It includes a substantial analysis of key policy issues, as well as detailed case studies of Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, and Vietnam.
This work systematically charts and comparatively assesses the trend towards private higher education in Southeast Asia. It includes a substantial ana...
This text uses case studies of governance from across Asia to examine how good governance principles translate into local settings, how local settings influence the conception of what is good governance and how the debate over good governance is deployed as a political or administrative strategy.
This text uses case studies of governance from across Asia to examine how good governance principles translate into local settings, how local settings...
This book looks at the role of social policy and particularly social security in addressing the ongoing challenge of poverty in East Asia despite the region's spectacular experience of economic growth in decent decades. The East Asian miracle resulted over the last four decades in a transformation of the region's traditional agrarian economies and significant increases in standards of living for many ordinary people. Even though it was given little attention, poverty has remained an ongoing problem. The problem became particularly evident however with the Asian financial crisis of 1997...
This book looks at the role of social policy and particularly social security in addressing the ongoing challenge of poverty in East Asia despite t...
Grassroots Social Security in Asia investigates the role of mutual associations in providing income protection to low-income people in Asia and in particular the region's developing countries. Historically, these associations have consisted of small groups of people with common interests who save regularly to support, maintain and supplement their incomes. Members make regular contributions to a communal fund which is used to provide income protection when they experience financial hardship. This book is the first to comprehensively document the activities of mutual associations and their...
Grassroots Social Security in Asia investigates the role of mutual associations in providing income protection to low-income people in Asia and in par...
