Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART 1 Scales, Logics, and Agents -- Tropical Knowledges -- The Natures of Culture: Environment and Race in the Colonial Tropics -- Dividing Lines: Nature, Culture, and Commerce in Indonesia’s Aru Islands, 1856–1997 -- A Move from Minor...

Purpose: This paper retested the Okun’s Law established in the 1960s and the subsequent research on Okun’s findings that a 1% increase in unemployment would lead to a 3 % decrease in GDP), i.e. Okun’s coefficient (β)= -3 in diverse economies of sixteen South and Southeast Asia, sixteen...

Economic integration is being inhibited by the poor state of transport connectivity between Bangladesh, and South Asia and Southeast Asia. This study reviews connectivity initiatives of Bangladesh and the two neighboring regions and proposes ways to deepen regional and interregional...

Economic integration is being inhibited by the poor state of transport connectivity between Bangladesh, and South Asia and Southeast Asia. This study reviews connectivity initiatives of Bangladesh and the two neighboring regions and proposes ways to deepen regional and interregional...