Labour Market Regulation and Deregulation in Asia: Experiences in Recent Decades - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 817188539X ISBN 13 : 9788171885398

Editeur : Academic Foundation, 2006

Synopsis

This edited volume successfully highlights the nature of labour market regulation and deregulation process that some Asian countries have experienced in recent decades. The understanding that emerges would help develop an interface of growth/development and its sustainability with welfare-distribution of gains. Based on individual country experiences, the book suggests ways to put in place, labour market regulations to foster fairer labour practices in certain countries in Asia.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Caroline Brassard has been teaching Development Economics and Statistics at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, at the National University of Singapore since 2002. She obtained a B.A. in Mathematics-Economics at the University of Montreal, an M.A. in Economics at the University of Toronto, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. She began her career as an economist for the Government of Ontario and quickly moved into the field of international development. Over the next 10 years, she under-took research and long-term consultancy work on poverty reduction strategies for several international non-governmental organisations, including UNICEF in Madagascar, CARE in Bangladesh and Save the Children in Vietnam. Caroline taught empirical analysis techniques for business and economics at the University of London, and obtained a professional accreditation for teaching in higher education. Her current research focuses on the impact of the transitional process towards a market economy in Vietnam, on income distribution, poverty and inequality and more recently, on the development strategy being implemented in Bhutan. Sarthi Acharya is currently Director, Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur (India). He has earlier been on the faculty of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Bombay. He has been a visiting scholar at Boston University in the US, the Institute of Social Studies in the Netherlands, and the Agricultural University at Bogor (Indonesia). He has also been Research Director at the Cambodia Development Resource Institute, and Employment Specialist with the International Labour Organization. He has been a consultant with the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, UN-ESCAP, UNDP and the Mauritius Research Council as well as to various agencies of the Government of India. He has published extensively in academic and professional forums. His main areas of interest are labour and development studies. Mukul G. Asher teaches Applied Public Sector Economics at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, at the National University of Singapore. Mukul Asher has taught or researched in Australia, Malaysia, Sweden, India and the USA. He has held visiting positions at several institutions, including with the Fiscal Affairs Department of The International Monetary Fund, and Harvard Institute for International Development. He specialises in public finances of developing countries, social security arrangements in Asia and economic cooperation among nations. He has published several books and numerous articles in international journals. His most recent book (with Avijit Gupta) is entitled Environment and Developing World, published by John Wiley, London 1998. He has acted as a consultant to the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, UN-ESCAP, Oxford Analytica, the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (Singapore), the Malaysian Institute of Economic Research, Singapore's Trade Development Board and others. He was a member of the ASEAN-India Expert Group on Trade and Investment Relations in 1994-95. Sean Cooney is Senior Lecturer and Associate Director (Taiwan) in the Faculty of Law at the University of Melbourne. He is also a member of the Asian Law Centre. He has studied at the University of Melbourne, Columbia University and National Taiwan University. He also spent several years as a lawyer practising mainly in the areas of employment and administrative law. His research interests are international and comparative labour law, with a focus on Asia, and Chinese law. He is currently working on new approaches to improving international working standards and is participating in an ongoing research project involving leading employment law scholars from Japan, Europe and the United States. He has published articles in major refereed law journals in the United States, China and Australia

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Academic Foundation
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 817188539X
• ISBN 13: 9788171885398
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 230
• Éditeur: Acharya Sarthi, Brassard Caroline
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible