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…
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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…
This thesis has two main objectives. First, it outlines a taxonomy of reflexive development practice, which aims at transcending the divide between modernism and postmodernism in the methodology of development economics. Second, the thesis examines the taxonomy in two countries …
The thesis explores the political dispositions lurking within the practices of vision, construed here in terms of the visible and invisible. It locates this investigation firstly, in the representational culture of colonial Singapore and secondly, in postcolonial Singaporean per…
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 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…
The study addressed the problem of high relapse rates among Malay drug addicts in Singapore. It compared successfully rehabilitated with relapsed ex-addicts. Four groups of factors (familial, individual, religious, and social support) were selected as predictor variables. Likert…
This thesis uses a typological framework to explain why the core functions of economic activity vary so significantly from state to state. I explain this variation by linking large structural factors to micro-level decisions. The typological framework I employ examines the inter…
Essay I: The monetary model of the exchange rate revisited: Evidence from the Pacific Rim countries. This Chapter examines the validity of long-run structural monetary model of the exchange rate for six Pacific Rim countries, i.e., Indonesia, South Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, …
In this dissertation, I examine Lloyd's of London, the world's largest insurance market, as a transnational actor that influences the maritime security policies of certain littoral states. The research question is: Did Lloyd's of London's classification of the Malacca Straits as…
The history of English- and Chinese-medium girls' schools that overseas Chinese founded and attended from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries in colonial Malaya and Singapore reveals the conflicts between constructions of modernization and ethnic Chinese identity,…
This dissertation examines state rule and state-society relations in Singapore and, by extension, successful developmental states, focusing specifically on policies relating to the family. Singapore's family policies embody paradoxical dimensions of state rule: a highly "modern"…
This dissertation is an empirical study on the dynamics of international finance in major Southeast Asian countries. The dissertation is comprised of three essays. The first essay estimates exchange rate pass-through into import prices in Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, a…
In this dissertation, I assess large business cycle fluctuation episodes and investigate what kind of shocks caused these large fluctuations and through what kind of mechanisms did these shocks operate. In the first chapter I focus on the late 1997 Korean crisis. Three main feat…
This research is a cross-cultural field study of the implementation of Harris Semiconductor's (HS) Activity-Based Cost Management System (ABCMS). HS has implemented an ABCMS in plants located in Malaysia, Singapore, and the United States. Geert Hofstede's taxonomy of work-relate…
This study reviews the experiences of workforce development organizations in Singapore and Penang, Malaysia. On the basis of the similarities in population and workforce size, the study argues that lessons can be learned from the two places which can be applied to U.S. regions. …
Accounting valuation has been an important topic in accounting research since the 1960s. However, few prior studies have investigated valuation models in Asian stock markets. This dissertation examines the value relevance of accounting information in seven Asian countries: Hong …
The primary concern of this study is to examine the relationship between economic growth (GDP) and the key trade variables, namely, exports and imports for five selected ASEAN countries (Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines). The exercise uses a simultan…
Liberalization of the international sector is widely assumed to affect growth positively by reducing distortions and market restrictions. This study analyzes the long-run relationship between international economic liberalization and growth for the ASEAN region between the perio…