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ISEAS Library Selects
Monthly Journal Articles on the
Southeast Asian Region
Extracted from Internet Sources
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Vietnam
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Brunei Darussalam
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Cambodia
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Laos
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Philippines
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Indonesia
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How climate change affected foraging patterns of prehistoric humans in Indonesia: During September and October 2015, our team of Indonesian and Australian researchers excavated the Here Sorot Entapa rock shelter in Kisar - an island northeast of Timor in the regency of Maluku Barat Daya. The island is rich in prehistoric remains, and our team went there specifically to study changes in prehistoric people's dietary patterns in response to climate change.
Hendri Kaharudin, Higher Degree Research Candidate, Australian National University; Shimona Kealy, Postdoctoral Researcher, College of Asia & the Pacific, Australian National University
Conversation
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Two reasons why China needs to expand its help to Indonesia to deal with COVID-19: With the United States and Europe both reeling from the pandemic, Chinese exports are expected to take a big hit. Indonesia, the largest market in Southeast Asia, can be one of the partners that can help fix this. China is the largest source of imports to Indonesia with a value of US$34.3 billion. It is also Indonesia's largest export destination.
Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat, Lecturer in International Relations, Universitas Islam Indonesia (UII)
Conversation
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Why Indonesia's Papua Insurgency Has Reached a Strategic Stalemate: On 30 March, separatist rebels opened fire on three employees of the Grasberg gold and copper mine near Puncak Jaya - the highest mountain in Indonesia's remote easternmost province of Papua. One worker was killed and another two sustained gunshot wounds in the attack, which targeted an office and housing area of US-based firm Freeport-McMoRan. The company jointly owns the site - which is the largest gold mine and second largest copper mine in the world - with the Indonesian government.
Michael Hart
Geopolitical Monitor
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IPAC Short Briefing No.2: COVID-19 and Conflict in Papua: The Covid-19 pandemic is exacerbating tensions in Indonesia's Papua province and exposing the shortcomings of government policy there. The Jokowi government urgently needs a senior official to focus exclusively on Papua to ensure that immediate humanitarian needs as well as longer-term security issues are more effectively addressed.
[11-page PDF document]
Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict
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Why conservation areas are not living up to their potential in Indonesia: Often national parks have limited resources to protect their vast conservation areas. ... Local communities also find it difficult to join the state's conservation effort, due to a lack of understanding and collaboration with authorities, which then drives the forest degradation. As of 2015, 30% of conservation forests were damaged because people encroached on them.
Lies Wijayanti Rahayu Faida, Ketua Program Studi Ilmu Kehutanan (S2), Universitas Gadjah Mada
Conversation
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IPAC Short Briefing No. 1: COVID-19 and ISIS IN Indonesia: The sheer scale of the COVID-19 pandemic has removed all else from the headlines, but it is worth examining the impact that it has had on ISIS; on the Syrian camps; and on pro-ISIS extremists in Indonesia.
[7-page PDF document]
Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict
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Social Safety Nets amid the COVID-19 Crisis: What Should the Government Do Now? [In Bahasa Indonesia]
[Contains link to 2-page PDF document]
Athia Yumna, Hafiz Arfyanto, Luhur Bima, Palmira Permata Bachtiar
SMERU
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The Impact of COVID-19 Outbreak on Poverty: An Estimation for Indonesia: We find that under the mildest COVID-19 impact on economic growth, the poverty rate will increase from 9.2 percent in September 2019 to 9.7 percent by the end of 2020. This implies that 1.3 million more people will be pushed into poverty.
[Contains link to 20-page PDF document]
Asep Suryahadi, Ridho Al Izzati , Daniel Suryadarma
SMERU
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Mengukur Dampak COVID-19 pada Pertumbuhan Ekonomi dan Perdagangan Indonesia 2020 [Measuring the impact of Covid-19 on Indonesia's economy and trade for 2020]
[8-page pdf article, in Indonesian]
Yose Rizal Damuri, Kepala Departemen Ekonomi CSIS Indonesia; Fajar B. Hirawan, Peneliti, Departemen Ekonomi CSIS Indonesia, Research Fellow, Disaster Management Research Unit, CSIS Indonesia
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
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Indigeneity and the State in Indonesia: The Local Turn in the Dialectic of Recognition: This article traces the relationship between the state and the idea of the original, sometimes referred to as the autochthonous, sometimes as the indigenous, in Indonesian history and analyses how these relationships are reflected in legislation on land issues, the major concern of recent indigenous movements. In a second step, the article deals with current political strategies of the indigenous movement (AMAN), concluding that the movement is shifting its efforts from the "centre" (national legislation), to the provinces and the margins, a process we term the "local turn" in the indigenous people's movement in Indonesia.
[20-page PDF document]
Sukri Tamma, Timo Duile
Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs
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In Papua, forests offer more economic benefits than oil palm plantations, research finds: ...we find that each person can get at least Rp2 million (US$125) per month in economic benefits from accessing wood, food, water and medicine in the forest. Adding to the calculation are benefits from the forest for the ecosystem. One example is the values on how much the forest can contribute to slowing down climate change.
Pablo J. Acosta GarcĂa, PhD Student of Bioenergy, Universidad PolitĂ©cnica de Madrid (UPM)
Conversation
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Research finds gender bias in textbooks of Indonesia and other Muslim majority countries: Why does Indonesia perform poorly in women's development in spite of the boom in female schooling? One reason could be that the country's education system - while accessible for all - employs teaching curriculum and learning materials that fail in challenging traditional roles and changing social attitudes towards women.
M Niaz Asadullah, Professor of Development Economics, University of Malaya
Conversation
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Innovate Indonesia: Unlocking Growth through Technological Transformation
[176-page PDF document]
Asian Development Bank
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Malaysia
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COVID-19 and the MCO: An Exit Strategy for Malaysia: In the short run, we must bring the economy back on-line as quickly as possible, prioritising networked industries. Specific recommendations include: To include logistics as among the essential services; Provide rapid feedback from MITI for the industry-related firms.
[28-page PDF document]
Carmelo Ferlito, Gaetano Perone
Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (IDEAS) (Malaysia)
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A Critical Time for Penang's Fragile Creative Ecosystem: Over the past dozen years following George Town's gaining of UNESCO World Heritage Status, its creative ecosystem has been undergoing steady changes, and has helped turn the city more than ever into an internationally famous tourist destination, in certain areas enriching the local cultural scene in the process. However, serious worries have emerged about Penang's creative ecosystem today, such as the ever stronger dependence of the arts on state-organised festivals as the main funding channels, and the lack of policy tools to cater to the different creative dynamics in the state.
[7-page PDF document]
Pan Yi Chieh
Penang Institute
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Education during COVID-19: There are 1.5 billion students from over 165 countries who are out of school due to the COVID-19 pandemic as announced by UNESCO on 26 March 2020. Malaysia is one of the 165 countries which has closed schools due to the pandemic. School holiday in Malaysia has been extended by 3 weeks after the school holidays in March. At the time of writing, there is still a possibility of the extension of the Movement Control Order (MCO) beyond 14 April 2020.
[12-page PDF document]
Ya Shin Wan
Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (IDEAS) (Malaysia)
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Penang Economic Outlook 2020: A Rough Year Ahead: Malaysia's economy is experiencing a triple hit at the beginning of 2020: The Covid-19 pandemic; the collapse of the Pakatan Harapan government; and the crash in global oil prices... The prospect for Penang's manufacturing industries in 2020 remains mixed. The manufacturing sector is expected to gain from the lofty capital investment approved last year, as well as the demand for medical devices. However, some supply chain disruptions are to be expected.
[18-page PDF document]
Ong Wooi Leng
Penang Institute
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Malaysia's Fight Against Covid-19: THE STATE'S ECONOMY stands on two main legs - the manufacturing and tourism industries. Amid public fears over the spread of Covid-19, both sectors have taken quite a bad hit; and despite the (now cancelled) Visit Malaysia 2020 and Experience Penang 2020 campaigns, many tourism-related activities and festivals in Penang have been halted...
Penang Monthly
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Poor Households Bear the Economic Brunt of Covid-19: For the economically vulnerable, i.e. the B40 households, the community is now facing tremendous challenges of sustenance. In Penang households that earn less than RM4,640 are classified as B40; and 44.9% of households earn a monthly gross income of less than RM5,000. Within this, 31.7% of households earn less than RM4,000.
Yeong Pey Jung
Penang Monthly
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The First 2020 Update on Penang 2030: A YEAR AND a half has come and gone since chief minister Chow Kon Yeow announced his vision for the state. The vision, Penang2030: A Family-focused Green and Smart State that Inspires the Nation, comprises four overarching themes of focus. These are: increase liveability to enhance quality of life; upgrade the economy to raise household income; empower the people to strengthen civic participation; and lastly, invest in the built environment to improve resilience.
Penang Monthly
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What Next for Malaysia? In a nutshell, Malaysia is possibly sailing into the perfect storm. It is therefore a wise move by Muhyiddin to announce, as his first task after being appointed prime minister, the adoption of the economic stimulus package announced by Mahathir and the Budget 2020 tabled by former finance minister Lim Guan Eng last year. These are after all initiatives he was a party to in the old cabinet. It is now up to the newly minted Zafrul Aziz, the country's new non-politician finance minister to take over and implement the economic plans as soon as possible. The task ahead is a tough one though; it is very brave of him to take up this thankless job at a difficult time. We as Malaysians should give all the support he needs in tackling these challenges.
Lee Kah Choon
Penang Monthly
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With Malaysian Politics on A Knife's Edge, What Challenges Will Muhyiddin Face? If Malaysia 's new government under Muhyiddin Yassin is a solid one, then one could perhaps begin declaring a new era in the country's politics. But it is not, and it in fact depends heavily on parties like the United Malays National Organisation (Umno) and the Islamist Parti Agama Se-Malaysia (PAS) to stay in power. Believing that Malaysia is in a new political era would be as foolhardy as the attitude of those who believed in the wake of the May 2018 general election that Umno was dead.
Ooi Kee Beng
Penang Monthly
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Myanmar
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"I WILL NOT SURRENDER": The criminalization of human rights defenders and activists in Myanmar
[28-page PDF document]
Amnesty International
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China-Myanmar Economic Corridor: A Unique BRI Case
[5- page PDF document]
Yun Sun
Journal of Greater Mekong Studies, Volume 2 Issue 1
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Singapore
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The Intersection of Emergent Technologies and Geopolitics: Implications for Singapore: This paper examines how Singapore as a small state will have to navigate a more contested world from a policy-relevant angle. A primary driver of geopolitical contestation today stems from emergent or Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) technologies contributing to the redistribution of geopolitical power to the disadvantage of the established western-led international order. Even as Singapore embarks on numerous programmes to invest in and adopt 4IR technologies, it has to consider geopolitics besides technical specifications and budgetary issues.
[12-page PDF document]
Muhammad Faizal Bin Abdul Rahman
S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS)
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Thailand
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THAILAND: SIX YEARS AFTER BILLY DISAPPEARED, AUTHORITIES MUST PROVIDE JUSTICE AND PROTECT HIS COMMUNITY'S RIGHTS [Public statement]
[1-page pdf document]
Amnesty International
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Faction Politics in an Interrupted Democracy: the Case of Thailand: Though dominated by the monarchy and military, Thailand in 2020 has a highly factionalised, political party system ensconced within a defective democracy. When not under military rule, such a situation has been common. The country's excessive level of factionalism across parties and over time is due to a long history of regionalised and decentralised parties that have invariably been dependent upon finance from faction leaders who have rarely been reined in by laws to limit factionalism.
[23-page PDF document]
Paul Chambers, Napisa Waitoolkiat
Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs
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ASEAN/Southeast Asia
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Domestic Coal: A Hindrance to Renewable Energy Development? Low carbon transition is an important climate change mitigation measure. It entails a switch from fossil fuels to renewable sources. The presence of cost-competitive domestic coal in coal-producing countries like Indonesia is often cited as a major stumbling block to renewable energy development. This article aims to probe the cheap domestic coal argument. It does so by examining the changing share of renewable energy sources in electricity production over a certain timeframe. The study finds mixed observations across important coal-producing countries.
[12-page PDF document]
Margareth Sembiring
S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS)
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E-Commerce Connectivity in ASEAN: The next Asian miracle of growth could be born with the region's digital transformation. Digital connectivity is the cornerstone that will make the changes feasible and smoothen the transformation. It consists of not only physical connectivity that facilitates the movement of raw materials, intermediate goods, and goods, but also cyber connectivity to support free flows of data, information, and services.
[325-page PDF document]
Lurong Chen & Fukunari Kimura
Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA)
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Loans from My Neighbors: East Asian Commercial Banks, Banking Integration, and Bank Default Risk: We investigate the impact of banking integration on recipient country bank default risk and, in particular, whether the type of banking integration moderates that relationship. Using the system generalized method of moments, we found that banking integration lowers bank default risk in recipient countries [in Southeast Asia].
[34-page PDF document]
Dung Thuy Thi Nguyen, Ivan Diaz-Rainey, Helen Roberts, and Minh Le
Asian Development Bank Institute
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Stopping Abu Sayyaf Kidnappings: An Indonesian-Malaysian Case Study: The best hope for reducing kidnapping and terrorism in the Sulu Sea may lie in the domestic policies of the three countries involved - Indonesia, Malaysia and Philippines. Improving transnational information-sharing is still essential, but each country has much homework to do if preventive efforts are to be successful.
[20-page PDF document]
Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict
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Cases of Foreign Interference in Asia: In the following pages, we examine cases of foreign interference in Asia, using a proposed framework to show the interplay between foreign interference, foreign influence, soft power, and hostile information campaigns. The cases are broadly categorised by tactics, including covert funding of politicians, parties, officials, influential persons, Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) and media; cyberattacks, and hostile information campaigns. The cases are taken from Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Australia.
[25- page PDF document]
Muhammad Faizal Bin Abdul Rahman, Gulizar Haciyakupoglu, Benjamin Ang, Dymples Leong, Jennifer Yang Hui, Teo Yi-Ling
S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS)
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Asia's Troubled River: Dam(n)ing or Managing the River?
[6-page PDF document]
Dr. Frederick Kliem
Journal of Greater Mekong Studies, Volume 2 Issue 1
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Cambodia Relations with Vietnam: Historical Mistrust and Vulnerability
[12-page PDF document]
H.E. Amb. Julio Jeldres
Journal of Greater Mekong Studies, Volume 2 Issue 1
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Chinese Dams, Drought, and Geopolitical Rivalry Threaten the Mekong
[6-page PDF document]
Murray Hiebert
Journal of Greater Mekong Studies, Volume 2 Issue 1
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Closer Cooperation would Aid Minilateralism in the Mekong Subregion
[6-page PDF document]
Dr. Nguyen Vu Tung and Le Trung Kien
Journal of Greater Mekong Studies, Volume 2 Issue 1
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Engagement and Strategic Competition in Mainland Southeast Asia
[8-page PDF document]
Dr. Pongphisoot Busbarat
Journal of Greater Mekong Studies, Volume 2 Issue 1
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The Fate of Mekong River: Hope or Dispair?
[6-page PDF document]
H.E. Amb. Pou Sothirak
Journal of Greater Mekong Studies, Volume 2 Issue 1
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The Mekong Region bends towards a Rising China
[6-page PDF document]
Sebastian Strangio
Journal of Greater Mekong Studies, Volume 2 Issue 1
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Why isn't the Drought Crisis Driving Regional Cooperation in the Mekong River Basin?
[6-page PDF document]
Brian Eyler
Journal of Greater Mekong Studies, Volume 2 Issue 1
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Asia Pacific
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The 'new normal': Thoughts about the shape of things to come in the post-pandemic world: The safe prediction is that the Indo-Pacific, then as now, will be the locus of global economic, political, and military power-and will remain so for at least the coming generation, possibly much longer.
Nicholas Eberstadt, Senior Advisor, The National Bureau of Asian Research; Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy
National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR)
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China's Digital Silk Road after the Coronavirus : Just a few months ago, China's technology ambitions appeared imperiled by Covid-19, then raging through the center of the country, bringing its economy to a standstill, and wreaking havoc to global supply chains. But the pandemic is already providing new opportunities for China's rise as a technology power and global provider of digital infrastructure. Indeed, in the months and years ahead, China's Digital Silk Road will only accelerate and expand. This comeback begins at home, where China is already doubling down on its domestic 5G expansion.
Jude Blanchette and Jonathan Hillman
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
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Asian Development Outlook (ADO) 2020: What Drives Innovation in Asia?
[contains links to highlights (15-page PDF document) and full report (391-page PDF document)]
Asian Development Bank
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Comparative Study on the Legal Framework on General Differentiated Integration Mechanisms in the European Union, APEC, and ASEAN
[21-page PDF document]
Usanee Aimsiranun
Asian Development Bank Institute
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Cooperation with Whom and for What?: Japan's Mekong Development Policy
[8-page PDF document]
Maki Aoki-Okabe
Journal of Greater Mekong Studies, Volume 2 Issue 1
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ADB's Comprehensive Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Policy Paper
[40-page PDF document]
Asian Development Bank
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Counterterrorism Yearbook 2020
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Counterterrorism Yearbook 2020
[116- page PDF document]
Isaac Kfir and John Coyne
Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)
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Global Economy
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COVID-19: Economic Impact Round-up (4-8-2020): The situation has yet to stabilize in the United States, though there are some encouraging signs that a peak might be on the horizon. Most recently, the rate of new hospitalizations slowed in New York - the epicenter of the US outbreak. Yet the state also reported its highest one-day death total since the outbreak began with 731. It was joined by New Jersey in reaching the grim new milestone; that state saw 232 people die over the past 24 hours. Together, the two account for the vast majority of US fatalities from COVID-19.
Geopolitical Monitor
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Globalisation
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COVID-19: Turning Point for Globalization? Weakened global institutions and leaders who reject scientific advice, not globalization, are the culprits of the COVID-19 pandemic
Hans Yue Zhu is a graduate student at Yale University's economics department and a research assistant at the Yale Jackson Institute for Global Affairs focusing on public policy and development economics.
YaleGlobal Online
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