International political economy debates in Southeast Asia have expanded the last decades from perspectives of development theories conjunction with structure states relations to links between state-market-society. The article explores studies Asia’s that has stimulated debate over past years and its future trends. It intends analyse trajectory issues topics identified utilizing structured resea...

Studies in Comparative International Development, Spring 2006, Vol. 41, No. 1, pp. 76-98. Seán Ó Riain is professor of sociology at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. His research has been primarily on the political economy of high-tech growth in Ireland and elsewhere, and on work and class politics among software developers. He is the author of The Politics of High Tech Growth: Deve...

Unemployment is a universal problem with which the political leadership of almost every country has to wrestle. Even the United States of America which has emerged as the dominant economy of the global village, is forced to invest considerable resources in job creation and economic development programmes aimed at reducing institutional unemployment. This matter has become so significant in the ...