ISEAS Library Selects
Monthly Journal Articles on the
Southeast Asian Region
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This issue of Monthly Articles Alert contains one article contributed by Dr Ooi Kee Beng and one article by Dr Malcolm Cook & Dr Ian Storey, Senior Fellows, ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute.
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Malaysia
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A Key Meeting Between Penang Institute and World Bank: The World Bank's East Asia and Pacific Regional Vice President Victoria Kwakwa and its Country Director for Brunei, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand recently visited Penang for consultations on regional economic developments, the Malaysian economy and the role of the World Bank Group's Global Knowledge and Research Hub in Malaysia.
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A Tsunami of Cultural Disruptions is on the Horizon: Will we come to think that electoral systems are the enemy of individual freedom; that the mass media is basically manipulative; that schools are a great hindrance to education; and that politicians are populists, plain and simple? Will leaders lead and followers follow, or will leaders merely pretend to lead - is that not what populism is, in any case? Will the nation state be hollowed out by localism on the one side and regionalism on the other?
Ooi Kee Beng Penang Monthly
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Batu Gajah: The Forgotten Capital of Kinta: Once a small village along the Kinta River, Batu Gajah rose to prominence in 1881 when it became the new river port for the Papan mines. Three years later, it was chosen as the capital of Kinta Valley when Ipoh was still a dense, jungle village. Then known as the only town after Taiping, Batu Gajah became the administrative and social centre of Kinta given its favourable locality and terrain. While the rise of Ipoh soon attributed to its declining role, its history as the official town which once administered the richest tin mining district in British Malaya is worth a revisit.
Koay Su Lyn Penang Monthly
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Budget 2019: Balancing Fiscal Responsibilities and Economic Growth: With the theme "A Resurgent Malaysia, A Dynamic Economy, A Prosperous Society", the 2019 Budget allocates a total of RM314.6bil in expenditure - about 12.2% more than the previous year. RM259.9bil (82.6%) is allocated for operating expenditure (OE) while RM54.7bil1 (17.4%) is set aside as development expenditure (DE). The larger expenditure for 2019 indicates that the monetary sector is stable and the government is willing to spend smartly to grow the economy as well as the well-being of Malaysians - in spite of the one trillion ringgit debt and liability bill left behind by the previous government.
Negin Vaghefi Penang Monthly
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Governing with a Vision: Part One: At 11.10am on May 14, 2018, four days after it became official that Pakatan Harapan had won the general elections, and that it (earlier as Pakatan Rakyat) had retained power for the fourth term in the state of Penang, Chow Kon Yeow was sworn in before the Yang di-Pertua Negri Tun Abdul Rahman Abbas as the state's fifth chief minister. Two days later, the 60-year-old Chow, now in charge of matters related to Land Affairs, Land Development, Transport and Information, oversaw the swearing in of the 10 executive councillors whom he had chosen to run the state government.Six months have now passed, and Penang Monthly has carried out short interviews with the excos on the issues that matter most to them.
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Governing with a Vision: Part Two
Penang Monthly
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Governing with a Vision: Part Three
Penang Monthly
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More Women in Politics Now! But ensuring that "at least 30% of policymakers appointed at all levels are women" remains a tall order - the women quota currently sits at only 16%. "Women's participation in local politics is still very low, and it's a challenge not only for Malaysia, but worldwide. Globally, only 23.8% of parliamentarians are women," says Lim Siew Khim, state Wanita DAP chief and state assemblywoman for Sungai Pinang.
Regina Hoo Penang Monthly
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Numbers on the Penang Economy and Labour Force: Penang's gross domestic product (GDP) and per capita GDP have been growing steadily from 2012 to 2017, with average annual growth rates of 5.9% and 6.1% respectively... Since 2012, Penang has outperformed Malaysia in terms of economic growth, except in 2017; this was due to the strong economic performance of Selangor and KL, which boosted the overall national performance.
Ng Kar Yong Penang Monthly
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Ripples from the Sales and Services Tax: From the business point of view, it is estimated that approximately 100,000 companies are subjected to the SST compared to 472,000 companies under the GST. The switch back to SST therefore reduces the tax burden of small and medium enterprises (SMEs).
Yeong Pey Jung Penang Monthly
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The Economy Remains Widely Robust: Malaysia remains resilient. Being an open trade-oriented economy, it continues to benefit from robust global demand for its exports, especially electrical and electronics (E&E) products. According to the economic outlook 2019 published by the Ministry of Finance (MOF), the country's economic growth is expected to have expanded to 4.8% for 2018 and is projected to increase further to 4.9% in 2019, underpinned by improved global trade as well as strong domestic demand.
Negin Vaghefi Penang Monthly
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Young, Malay and Female: Mandarin-speaking Noorhasyilah Rosli relates her experience growing up in a multicultural society, exploring her identity at the same time.
Noorhasyilah Rosli Penang Monthly
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Puritan Political Engagement: The Evolution of Salafism in Malaysia
[26-page PDF document]
Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict
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What Is Going on in Malaysia-and Why Does It Matter to the United States? Malaysia's political transition has coincided with a rapidly changing and challenging regional security environment. It is in this context that we should view U.S. relations with the countries of Southeast Asia...
Marvin C. Ott National Interest
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Myanmar
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SASEC Vision - Myanmar: This publication identifies regional and subregional opportunities for Myanmar to harness natural and human resources, industrial potential, and infrastructure connectivity as part of the South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation program.
[50-page PDF document]
Asian Development Bank
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Myanmar's Peace Process on Life Support: When Aung San Suu Kyi was propelled to high office via a landslide election victory in November 2015, she vowed to make ending Myanmar's decades-old internal strife a top priority of her government. Yet three years on, the initial outpouring of hope and optimism around the world after the ascent to power of Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) has been replaced with rising condemnation of the brutal Rohingya crackdown and alleged army abuses in the northern states of Kachin and Shan.
Michael Hart Geopolitical Monitor
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Singapore
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International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination: Consideration of reports submitted by States Parties under Article 9 of the Convention Initial report of States Parties due in 2018: Singapore
[54-page PDF document]
Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth, Singapore
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Singapore Public Sector Outcomes Review 2018: The biennial Singapore Public Sector Outcomes Review (SPOR) takes stock of how Singapore has fared in key areas of national interest. It focuses on whole-of-government outcomes and indicators that reflect current and emerging policy concerns and issues. Coordinated by the Ministry of Finance with inputs from all ministries, SPOR provides a report on the strategies, programmes, and resources that are employed by our public agencies to achieve these outcomes.
[61-page PDF document]
Ministry of Finance, Singapore
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Vietnam
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Scaling up small-scale food processing: Complementary food for children in Vietnam: Despite remarkable socioeconomic growth and improvements in health over the past two decades, Vietnam continues to face significant food insecurity and chronic malnutrition challenges among women and children. Small-scale farmers and ethnic minorities in northern rural areas are particularly hard hit: 46% of local children under two are anemic and 18% have stunted growth, which causes irreversible deficiencies in learning, memory, and a decreased IQ.
IDRC
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From Tusk to Trinket: Persistent Illegal Ivory Markets in Viet Nam
[61-page PDF document]
Minh D. T. Nguyen, Rosa A. Indenbaum, and Madelon Willemsen TRAFFIC
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ASEAN/Southeast Asia
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Protecting the Sulu-Sulawesi Seas from Abu Sayyaf Attacks
[22-page PDF document]
Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict.
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Realizing the Potential of Public-Private Partnerships to Advance Asia's Infrastructure Development
[359-page PDF document]
Akash Deep, Jungwook Kim & Minsoo Lee Asian Development Bank
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Context and conflict: the political economy of Southeast Asia's development from independence to hyperglobalisation
[46-page PDF document]
Toby Carroll Southeast Asia Research Centre, City University of Hong Kong
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Toward Gender-Focused Governance Reform in Asia: Only four in every 10 workers in the global labor force are women. Similar discrepancies between the women's share in the population and the labor force are reported in Asia and the Pacific, specifically in Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, and the Republic of Korea.
[9-page PDF document]
Kunmin Kim & Dani Rose C. Salazar Asian Development Bank Institute
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Asia Pacific
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Japan's desperate need for migrant workers a warning for the UK: Japan brought in a controversial new labour policy at the end of 2018 which will open up blue-collar jobs to workers from countries such as Nepal, Thailand, the Philippines and Vietnam. The amendment to Japan's notoriously restrictive immigration laws is expected to bring in an estimated 345,000 foreign workers within the next five years. Without migrants, Japan would face a very real danger of running out of workers. Is the UK next?
Caroline Nye Conversation
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Opinion: The China "Debt Trap": Freedom, Sovereign Debt, and Generational Accounting: The "creditor imperialism" fallacy is in essence a deliberate attempt by India and Western countries to denigrate the Belt and Road Initiative, which exhibits their envy of the initial fruits the initiative has produced. Such an argument stems from their own experiences of colonialism and imperialism.
Dr. Lu Wei is an associate research fellow with the China's National Development and Reform Commission's Academy of Macroeconomics Studies. Geopolitical Monitor
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The Role of SMEs in Asia and Their Difficulties in Accessing Finance: As most Asian countries are bank-dominant economies, capital market financing is not a realistic option for SMEs. Therefore, we need to look for solutions that make bank lending to SMEs easier. This study will highlight the difficulties SMEs face in accessing finance and provide measures for mitigating them.
[22-page PDF document]
Asian Development Bank Institute
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The Asian Digital Transformation Index 2018: Building environments for
technology-led change
[10-page PDF document]
The Economist Intelligence Unit Economist
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Climate Change
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From Paris to Beijing: Implementing the Paris Agreement in the People's Republic of China: There have been many interpretations regarding the exact nature of China's obligations in reducing emissions under the 2015 Paris Agreement. The e is complicated by the inherent difficulties of implementing climate policies across a vast region where policy execution requires cooperation and coordination among offices of the Chinese central government, its diverse subnational governments, and many other stakeholders.
[44-page PDF document]
Craig A. Hart Atlantic Council
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Mapping the world's 'blue carbon' hot spots in coastal mangrove forests: Rising concern over the risk of severe impacts from climate change is spurring research into ways in which ecosystems may mitigate global warming by storing excess carbon in plants and soil. The key to improving these estimates, we found, is to factor in how rivers, tides, waves and climate shape coastal landforms to create different environmental settings.
Robert Twilley & Andre Rovai Conversation
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Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) / Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP)
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RCEP Negotiations and the Implications for the United States: Amid the ongoing trade war between China and the United States, the world's two largest economies, there has been a quiet but growing effort to establish the world's largest economic trade sphere in Asia. The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement, which is a free trade agreement (FTA) involving sixteen countries-the ten members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)...
Takashi Terada National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR)
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Global Economy
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World Economic League Table 2019: A world economic league table with forecasts for 193 countries to 2033
[239-page PDF document]
Centre for Economics and Business Research
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US Foreign Policy
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Preventive Priorities Survey: 2019: U.S. foreign policy experts assess the likelihood and impact of thirty potential crises or conflicts around the world in the coming year in Council on Foreign Relations' annual survey.
[12-page PDF document]
Council on Foreign Relations
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A Japanese Perspective: Considering these factors, the United States and its allies would be wise to take the Indo-Pacific vision seriously in a coordinated way. Yet, it is not clear whether Trump and his administration will be able to come up with a concrete process to actually make progress in the Indo-Pacific vision. The biggest reason is that the Indo-Pacific vision seems to be outside the scope of Trump's reelection campaign efforts
Akimoto Satohiro ASAN Institute for Policy Studies
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A Southeast Asian Perspective: The Obama administration's "Asia rebalance" focused on Southeast Asia and ASEAN-led regional institutions; envisioned China more as a potential major power partner than a peer rival; addressed regional concerns about America's "staying power" in Asia; and spared regional states from having to choose between the United States and China. Two years into office, the Trump administration's "Free and Open Indo-Pacific" (FOIP) policy has crystalized. It recognizes China as a long-term peer rival of the United States and is focused on not ceding leadership to Beijing in Asia. FOIP favors unilateral actions, and loose mini-lateral cooperation with states that have similar views of China and significant capabilities.
Malcolm Cook & Ian Storey ASAN Institute for Policy Studies
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