In Southeast Asia, the issue of "social safety nets" (SSNs) has emerged more prominently since the financial crisis. Despite the increased interest in social safety nets, there is still considerable confusion among scholars and national and international organizations regarding the use and...

The study on "Managing International Labor Migration in ASEAN: Thailand" aimed to study policies and institution arrangement for managing international migration as part of regional cooperation initiatives and bilateral agreements. The study emphasized on finding out why the current management...

pment in the process of economic growth, a convincing theoretical framework was lacking until the recent publications of McKinnon [19] and Shaw [25]. Indeed, neoclassical growth theories provide, in the main, a negative role to the monetary process. Here, a reduction rather than an increase in...

In a recent article in this Review, Akhtar [2] presented 30 estiO.ates of demand or money functions in Pakistan. One of the purposes of Akhtar's study was to est two alternative theories, "the modern quantity theory of money and what JUay ,lie called the 'accumulating capital' framework" [2, p....