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This paper proposes the “uncolonial” as an alternative Philippine ontology to the traditionally dualistic terrain of coloniality often associated with the archipelago. While much traditional research has provided insight into the ways in which colonial governance, bolstered by C…

Temporary contract migrants as a class fall between systems of responsibility: home country, host country, and international community. The systems are separately inadequate and basically uncoordinated, leaving migrants in a precarious situation. The situation of temporary contr…

Institutions for collective action are vital to accomplishing a variety of difficult developmental tasks, including irrigation management. For decades experts have argued collective action institutions for farmer participation, called water user organizations, are essential for …

This dissertation examines the deportation of Mexican “vagrants” and other convicts to the Philippines between 1765 and 1821 to demonstrate that the Spanish Pacific world, traditionally neglected by the historiography of Latin America, was an important part of the history of the…

The period since the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis has witnessed many reforms in the economic structure and financial landscape in Asian economies that have increasingly influenced the global economy and financial discourse. The extents of these reforms not only involve macroecono…

The lack of favorable outcomes produced by recent attempts at counterinsurgency by Western countries shows that the importance of uncovering a more effective approach for conducting external counterinsurgency operations cannot be downplayed. In an attempt to discover what this a…

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…

Environmental degradation and poverty are inter-linked realities in many developing countries. Because the problems are complex, they have to be analyzed at various levels and perspectives, and using tools from different disciplines. In countries ranking from Indonesia to Malawi…

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…

This study describes the Church's Kingdom mission through power ministries among the urban poor people in Lupang Pangako, Metro Manila. The urban poor are one of the largest target populations of today's mission. Mission focused on the urban poor should be understood biblically,…

I evaluate the hypothesis that higher autonomy of mothers is related to lower infant and child mortality in 47 communities across five south and southeast Asian countries: India, Pakistan, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand. I also consider the idea that the lower autonomy of Mu…

This dissertation analyzes relations between economic performance, elite transformations, and regime stability in the five countries that were seriously affected by the Asian economic crisis: Indonesia, South Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, and the Philippines. I subject an array of …

Josè Rizal, a nineteenth century Philippine propagandist, lived as he died: dedicated to creating a national identity through anti friar propaganda, he would be executed by a firing squad at the age of 29 for sedition against Spain's colonial empire. In his short life, he earned…

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 evidence presented in this thesis supports the view that men and women participate in the labour force in qualitatively distinct ways and that, as a result, policies to increase female employment in the formal economy have an impact on economic development that is quite diff…

The Asian crisis of 1997 was preceded by a period of massive capital inflows to Asian countries. When the crisis hit, these inflows became a massive capital outflow. This reversal, in terms of domestic economic output, cost these countries tremendously. Using the financial accou…

This study examines the valuation of corporate diversification in three emerging countries: Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines. Over the period of study (1992–2001 for Thailand and 1994–2001 for Indonesia and the Philippines), it is found that there is evidence of diversifi…

During the past thirty years, an era commonly referred to as the “third wave of democratization,” nearly all authoritarian regimes have experimented with political liberalization and held multiparty elections. Yet while autocratic leaders changed the façades of their governments…

A child health production function is presented with the key feature being an interaction term between a caregiver's schooling and their exposure time to the child. I estimate the production function using a 2SLS fixed effects model with lagged child care time, resource allocati…

This study describes changes in Kalinga law and its relationship with the broader systems of state and international law. Its major goal is to refine understanding of the Kalinga legal system known as bodong: first, by providing an adequate account of its processes through the e…