This critical review serves as a significant formal documentation of the postmodern self-reflexive theatre in the postmodern and post-independence Singapore. Through the Human Lefts Series, which I conceptualised and performed between 2005 and 2009, we are able to look at postmo…
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If language regimes are the rules that delineate which languages can be used when and where--thereby institutionalizing the distribution of linguistic powers--what explains a government's language regime choice? Specifically, under what conditions are linguistic powers concentra…
The purpose of this research was to determine the efficacy of the International Monetary Fund’s Stabilization Program (IMFSP) as a tool for economic development. The Fund’s program utilizes an approach steeped in the Washington Conesus, which requires austere and demand side eco…
A key concern of theological educators in offering online education has to do with spiritual formation. A related concern is the apparent lack of community online, which is considered an essential context for formation. This research explored how spiritual formation was demonstr…
Theories for the study of social welfare policy in a comparative context have developed primarily as the study of European, industrialized democracies. The question of whether this literature represents a general theoretical perspective or culture specific effects is a major foc…
After fifty years of aggressive augmentation, reclaimed land now makes up a quarter of Singapore’s total landmass. Cut out of sea, this artificial land aspires to cut the chain of causality: to self-found and so give law to itself (auto-nomos). How to analytically capture that g…
This dissertation deals with the growth convergence in Southeast Asia that focuses on the five ASEAN countries and explores the possibility of measuring the underground economy in Indonesia. Through the similarity in the underlying distributions, the convergence conditions of th…
Transfers of sophisticated weaponry to developing countries have several consequences, one of which is the dependence of a recipient upon its suppliers. Dependence is defined as a structural situation characterized by a concentration of linkages in the absence of alternatives. I…
This dissertation examines intercountry differences in agricultural efficiency and productivity. In one approach, traditional Cobb-Douglas production functions are econometrically estimated with fixed and random effects models using panel data. These models are estimated with tr…
It is well-known in economic theory that economic growth is associated with the resources of labor and capital, and their efficient use. The combined effect of the latter is measured by Multifactor productivity (MFP) that plays a major role in growth. Reflecting the growth of ou…
This dissertation is a comparative historical analysis between Malaysia and Singapore on the relationship between capitalist development and authoritarianism. Both Malaysia and Singapore have recorded remarkable economic growths and rapid industrial development, but both these c…
This study investigates whether implicit government guarantees to the banking system contributed to the 1997 Southeast Asian financial crisis. In particular, I examine the banking systems in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, and Thailand. The presence of implicit depo…
Telecommunications is an infrastructure which facilitates economic growth and development. Its importance had often been overlooked in the developing countries until the late 1980s. The funds for a telephone network were not prioritized as compared to other types of infrastructu…
During the nineteenth century, the Straits Settlements of Singapore, Penang and Melaka were established as free ports for British trade in Southeast Asia. As settlement colonies rather than colonial conquests they proved attractive to large numbers of regional migrants. The Stra…
In this dissertation we tested the absolute version of PPP in six Asian countries: Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and the Philippines for the current float. Standard unit root tests and cointegration techniques are used to test PPP in the Asian countries. No ev…
In this dissertation, I examine the issues involved in the localization of global ideas associated with liberal democratic governance as seen through the cases of Malaysia and Singapore. This study addresses aspects of contemporary political developments in both these countries …
Problem. The problem of this study was to determine the relationship between critical thinking disposition (Negative, Indifferent, Positive) of lecturers in selected Southeast Asia seminaries and Bible colleges and their conception of teaching (Knowledge Transmission, Learning F…
HongKar Experiences argues for the distinctiveness of the encounters of Teochew Catholic communities in Singapore. It outlines the development of the communities that eventually referred to themselves as HongKar-Nang in Singapore, spanning the period of 1820 to 1980. This disser…
The hypothesis underlying this study is that the content and style of the displays in self-designated national museums can afford valuable insights as to the concepts of national identity held by those institutions' authorities. Two related research questions were therefore addr…