South East Asian CNVs Captured

How Far Behind Are the South Asian Countries in Relation to East Asian

We define as South Asian countries those countries that start with Iran and end with Bangladesh in Asia. Wethen use export statistics in terms of revealed comparative advantage (RCA) for 14 industrial sectors tomeasure distances of export capabilities for these countries in relation to the “Western” developed and EastAsian countries. Statistical methods such as multidimensional scaling and ...

East Asian Medicine in South Korea

This paper deals with East Asian medicine in South Korea, a topic quite under-studied in social science in comparison to traditional medicine in other East Asian countries. It was only in the late 1990s that Korean medicine started to gain the attention of social scientists, sparked by controversies surrounding the pharmacy debates. Korean researchers based at Korean and Western academic instit...

South East Asian Corporate Board Size

There is few papers that analyse South East Asian firm board size and this paper adds to this literature; focusing on the larger listed firms in Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. While it is apparent that large firms have large boards there is also more subtle cross-country variation concerning the impact of leverage and profitability on board size. Finall...

Food Security in South and South East Asian Countries

Health impact assessment needs in south-east Asian countries.

A situation analysis was undertaken to assess impediments to health impact assessment (HIA) in the South-East Asia Region of WHO (SEARO). The countries of the region were assessed on the policy framework and procedures for HIA, existing infrastructure required to support HIA, the capacity for undertaking HIA, and the potential for intersectoral collaboration. The findings show that environmenta...