The corporate history of Ford in Malaya from 1926 to 1957 reveals Ford Canada's global strategy to tap new British colonial markets. A combination of factors motivated Ford Canada to set up a subsidiary in Malaya, whose subsequent domestic sales and marketing success depended on maintaining...

Critical scholarship views corporate accumulation – a fundamental driver of capitalism – as inherently dispossessive, involving violence and expropriation. However, dispossession also involves practices of legitimation that are related to coercive violence in complex ways. We examine the...

This paper explores the dynamic of investment governance from the perspective of Diaspora investment governance in an island economy in China. It is not a study of investment governance as understood in the conventional developed sense. The study took place in a system absent of business angel,...

Climate change poses severe challenges to economic growth and financial stability, especially in developing countries with a more carbon-intensive economy and a greater exposure to climate-related damages. This paper proposes a simple model in which an emerging open economy, characterised by the...

This paper focuses on relevant policy strategies to reduce climate related vulnerability for Malaysian rice agriculture. Here an analysis of impacts on climate change and vulnerabilities is performed, based on observational records of inter-annual variability in precipitation and worming...

During the late 1950s and early 1960s, when Japan experienced a period of rapid economic growth comparable to that of many other Asian countries today, government fiscal policy was largely facilitated by the Fiscal Investment and Loan Program ("FILP"). This paper examines whether it would be...

Whether longer tenure of political agents leads to better public policies is a central question of political economy. Tenure security extends the time horizons of dictators, and this property may be important for understanding economic growth under extractive institutions. This study estimates...

Most scholars, professionals, parents, governments, and societies strongly believe that education, especially tertiary education, provides important economic and social benefits to everyone involved. Furthermore, tertiary education is recently considered as an important investment. Students...

The current study examines the relationship between GDP fluctuations and private investment by using macro panel approach in a panel of five selected South Asian countries (SSAC) including Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka for the period of 1980-2010. The study applies modern...