The purpose of this study was to explore primary grade teachers' stages of concern and their implementation of an educational reform initiative called Integrated Thematic Instruction (ITI) in Indonesia. The Indonesian minister of education mandated primary grade teachers to impl…
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High Mountain Asia (HMA) has been strongly impacted by climate change, and will continue to be impacted by diverse climate stressors in the coming years. A combination of changing weather patterns and retreating glaciers has begun to impact water resources in the region; the rat…
This research examines the puzzle of female labor migration of in Asia. Unlike male migration which is spread across the region, major flows of female migration originate from only a handful of countries. And the “senders” of migrant women (the Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Indone…
This dissertation empirically investigates the inter-related issues in the emerging markets. The first issue, we examine is portfolio optimization in emerging stock markets using Mean-Variance theorem and Extreme Value theory. We compare the optimal portfolio selected under Safe…
The objective of this dissertation is to provide both a theoretical and an empirical investigation of the occurrence and spread of financial crisis, specifically in the context of the Asian financial crisis during the period 1997–1999. This dissertation focuses on three issues: …
The city-state was the cornerstone of Greek and Roman civilizations, but Greek and Roman cities had different social and administrative organizations. My dissertation examines how Greek cities were transformed in the Roman period. Should we ascribe all these transformations to R…
This study explores how American undergraduate interns from a large urban university cope with and adjust to cultural differences encountered during a two-month internship in Asia. The research investigates student perceptions and socio-cultural factors that affect interns as th…
Natural resources are easy for governments to tax, as they embody high amounts of windfall profit or “economic rent.” According to resource economics, it is optimal for governments to collect as revenues nearly all of the economic rent earned by resource extractors. For example,…
There is considerable evidence that dowry payments in India have not only increased over the last five decades, but that the custom has spread into regions and communities where it was never practiced before. The aim of this thesis is to understand why these changes have occurre…
Chapter 1 addresses the following question: Is China diverting foreign direct investment from other Asian economies? Theoretically, a growing China can add to other countries' direct investment by creating more opportunities for production networking and by raising demand for ra…
In March 1942, Japan captured the Dutch East Indies and began a military occupation that lasted until August, 1945. More than in most military occupations, occupier and occupied had strong practical reasons for cooperation: Both shared a common Western enemy. Japan had an acute …
This dissertation analyzes regional conflict and cooperation in Southeast Asia. It argues that ASEAN's establishment was a product of the process of resolving the conflicts arising out of the creation of Malaysia. In the early 1960s, the decision to unite Singapore and the Borne…
My dissertation addresses three issues regarding appropriate monetary policy regimes in the aftermath of the Asian currency crisis. First, it investigates whether the monetary policy stance adopted by the crisis-hit countries should have been tight or expansionary in response to…
Why did Japan conduct its own independent economic development policies in Asia, although Japan's other foreign policies were greatly influenced by the external environment, especially, the United States? Why did Japan's colonial policy and its Official Development Assistance (O…
This study treats East and Southeast Asia as a regional economy. The regionality of East and Southeast Asia is defined by the linkages between two regional business networks, the Japanese enterprise networks and the ethnic Chinese business networks, and the economy of China. The…
The contamination of groundwater by naturally occurring arsenic (As) in South and South East Asia has resulted in the exposure of an estimated 100 million people to hazardously high concentrations of this known carcinogen. Whilst the biogeochemical processes and mechanisms respo…
This dissertation summarizes research conducted in assessing the feasibility of various proposals to organize a common bond market for Asia as an agency to deter the recurrence of the "1997-1998 Asian financial crisis" which caused economic disarray to Indonesia, Malaysia, Phili…
According to many analysts, September 11th showed that globalization has empowered terrorists to reach out and kill from across the world. But does globalization necessarily make violent transnational non-state actors' job easier? How and when does geography still matter to glob…
There have been studies applying an OCA criteria to East Asia, Bayoumi and Eichengreen (1994), Eichengreen and Bayoumi (1999), Goto and Hamada (1994), and Kwan (1998), have focused largely on evaluating the economic conditions for regional monetary integration in East Asia. Many…