Development Studies
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Labour Market Segmentation in Malaysian Services
This is the first book to look at labor in Malaysian services, and also the first to use the labor market segmentation approach to study Malaysian...RM76.00 -
Land and Longhouses: Agrarian Transformation in the Uplands of Sarawak
This book examines the role of community, market and state in the historic transformation of upland livelihoods in Southeast Asia Focusing...RM126.00 -
Las Vegas in Singapore: Violence, Progress and the Crisis of Nationalist Modernity
Las Vegas in Singapore looks at the collision of the histories of Singapore and Las Vegas in the form of Marina Bay Sands, one of Singapore’s two...RM130.00 -
Law, Institutions and Malaysian Economic Development
This pioneering volume develops an institutionalist analysis of Malaysia’s post-colonial economy by exploring the political economy of development...RM55.00 -
Malaysian “Bail Outs”? : Capital Controls, Restructuring and Recovery
As Malaysia's government responded to the 1997-98 financial crisis, the global financing community criticised its measures as bail outs for...RM48.00 -
Minister of Finance Incorporated: Ownership and Control of Corporate Malaysia
In this study of Malaysia’s new political economy, Edmund Terence Gomez et al unwrap decades of political involvement in the corporate sector,...RM45.00 -
Money
Selected from the books Sapiens and Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari How did money come to be invented Why does it now have such significance in...RM22.90 -
Moral Politics in the Philippines: Inequality, Democracy and the Urban Poor
Moral Politics in the Philippines offers an in-depth examination of the political participation and discourse of the urban poor in Manila After the...RM155.00 -
Mythbusting Vietnam: Facts, Fictions, Fantasies
Vietnam is studied and understood in myriad ways Even so, much of this knowledge is framed by a limited number of dominant paradigms The concern of...RM120.00 -
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement No One is Too Small to Make a Difference collects Greta...RM29.00 -
Pricing the Planet’s Future: The Economics of Discounting in an Uncertain World
Our path of economic development has generated a growing list of environmental problems including the disposal of nuclear waste, exhaustion of...RM105.00 -
Second Takeoff: Strategies Malaysia’s Economic Resurgence
The Malaysian economy is at a crossroads amid global and regional shifts in geopolitics Malaysia is in a prime position to benefit from the renewed...RM70.00 -
Sensing Others: Voicing Batek Ethical Lives at the Edge of a Malaysian Rainforest
Sensing Others explores the lives of Indigenous Batek people in peninsular Malaysia amid the strange and the new in the borderland between protected...RM48.00 -
Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World
The story of the sixteenth-century’s epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and...RM139.00 -
The Badeng Kenyah of Belaga in Sarawak: Marginality, Changing Traditions and Development
The Badeng Kenyah of Belaga in Sarawak: Marginality, Changing Traditions and Development explains the history, culture and development of the Badeng...RM45.00 -
The Cardamom Conundrum: Reconciling Development and Conservation in the Kingdom of Cambodia
A ‘conundrum’ is a puzzle whose solution also involves resolving a paradox In this instance, the paradox arises from two widely held and...RM65.00 -
The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither
Isabella Bird, an Englishwoman whose extensive travels and writings earned her the first female membership of the Royal Geographical Society, visited...RM50.00 -
The Great Escape: Health, Wealth and the Origins of Inequality
The world is a better place than it used to be People are healthier, wealthier, and live longer Yet the escapes from destitution by so many has left...RM75.50