Many rural areas are undergoing structural changes as jobs in forestry, fishing, mining, agricultural and other natural resource-based industries decline. These communities, often based around these industries, are generally small and located some distance from urban areas. They…
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The world economy appears to have undergone profound changes since the end of the Second World War. Its regulatory nature has changed from being primarily national to become international. The "Golden Age", from the late 1940s to early 1970s, was based on a regime of accumulatio…
This dissertation examines the consequences of commitments by private and public agents to behaviors and structures that promote learning for the relative success and continued growth of industrial and technology poles in developing countries. Going beyond conventional formulati…
This is a study on the economic returns to education in Indonesia. In the past decades, Indonesia has registered tremendous achievements in expanding its educational system. There are questions, however, about the appropriate direction for educational policy to achieve the dual …
This thesis examines the history of the North Manchuria frontier from 1900 to 1931, which was a crucial period in regional development. Within thirty-one years, about four million Chinese peasants immigrated into the region. The frontier society that took shape exhibited feature…
This research examines the relationships between the economic structure and the levels of development in the districts of Peninsular Malaysia. It will also articulate a regionalization by grouping districts according to similarity in levels of development. The relationships betw…