Kee Cheok Cheong
Biographic Data
| ID | 1452766 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kee Cheok Cheong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kee Cheok |
| FAMILY NAME | Cheong |
| SIGNATURE | CHEONG K C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Malaya |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Social learning and dynamics of farmers’ perception towards hollowed village consolidation
Existence of asymmetry between wages and automatable jobs
Purpose This study aims to explore, in the context of Machinery and Equipment sector of Malaysia, the association between average wages and share of employment in automatable jobs, specifically whether the association between average wages and share of employment automatable jobs is asymmetric in nature. Design/methodology/approach The responses obtained from the structured interview of 265 firms are used to build up the empirical models (conditi…
Pulling in one direction? Stakeholder perceptions of employability in Malaysia
This paper examines the role of higher education and higher education providers, more specifically, regarding employability. The paper draws upon a three-year research project examining the key stakeholders in this process; from parents, to students, to teachers, to institutions, to employers. The paper offers critical insight and analysis into the importance of perception, government action, institutional capability and context in the developmen…
Regime Changes, State-Business Ties and Remaining in the Middle-Income Trap
While Malaysia's economy is widely acknowledged as having the capacity to escape the middle-income trap and achieve highly-industrialised status, this potential has not been realised. One theoretical proposition why an economy remains mired in the middle-income trap is that the introduction of mechanisms to overcome this problem is hampered by political, not economic, matters. Malaysia serves as an interesting case to test this proposition becaus…
Who Benefits From Development? Analyzing the Stakeholder Contestations in a Traditional Settlement of Malaysia
Urban–rural renewal is an instrument not only to manage urbanization but also for sustainable development. In this process, major stakeholders are affected differentially. The case studied here shows how the most vulnerable stakeholders are deprived of benefits in the urban–rural renewal process. Through an analysis of Mantin, a small Malaysian town, the study depicts conflicts among stakeholders. Beyond the traditional stakeholder analysis frame…
China in Malaysia
Revisiting the Malayan Emergency
Declassified documents from China and the former Soviet Union on the Malayan ‘Emergency’ reveal not only the Chinese Communist Party’s perspective of and role in the episode, but also that China’s unwillingness to help the Malayan communists was a factor that led the latter to opt for negotiations at Baling. Other contributing factors were the Malayan government’s willingness to negotiate, the Communists’ military difficulties, and the Communist …
Nanning – Perils and promise of a frontier city
Human Trafficking in Malaysia
Recent studies have suggested that migrants are highly vulnerable to being trafficked. Malaysia, with its large number of migrants is vulnerable and is struggling to implement its Anti-Trafficking in Persons and Anti-Smuggling of Migrants Act 2007. There is also little information on implementation experience so far. Through in-depth interviews with government bureaucrats and other stakeholders, this study seeks to gain some insight into Malaysia…
From Patrimonialism to Profit
Unlike the period before World War II, the Malaysian Chinese no longer look towards China as a home they will ultimately return to. This is seen in the flow of funds to China from the Malaysian Chinese. Before the war the motivation was patrimonial. The funds were in the form of patriotic bonds and collections and remittances that went to the home provinces of the Malaysian Chinese mostly in Fujian and Guangdong. Since the 1990s the funds flow ha…
Quanzhou
From obscurity to global prominence — Yiwu's emergence as an international trade hub
Technology Catch-up with Chinese Characteristics
China’s technological progress is as spectacular as the growth of its economy since 1978. Technology indicators place China just behind the United States, which has a much higher per capita income. China’s progress is material to Southeast Asia because its per capita income, being similar to that of the Association of South East Asian Nation’s, will have considerable relevance for this region; and China’s technological advance will probably inten…
Government-linked companies and sustainable, equitable development
The debate over how far governments should intervene in economies in order to promote economic growth has taken on new vigour since the financial crisis of 2008. Many countries, many of them in Asia, have secured good economic growth after the crisis by adopting a developmental state model, with governments intervening in their economies, often supporting specific companies. This book explores debates about government intervention, assesses inter…
Surviving Financial Crises
Most studies of financial crises focus on the impact on states, and the states’ responses. Few, if any, have focused on how these crises affect communities within the state which do not have control of the state apparatus. These groups, left out of decision-making processes and calculations by the state, suffer the most. In pre-war British Malaya and Malaysia, these groups were the Chinese overseas, Indians and some Malay minorities. A study of t…
Southeast Asia and the Asian and Global Financial Crises
Despite the deleterious impact of the 2008–09 global financial crisis, which seriously undermined mainstream economists' claims that the world economy has matured enough to prevent the return of a global depression, policymakers are still grappling with unchartered territory to insulate their economies from debilitating regional and global contagions. This article provides the introduction to a special issue targeted at dissecting the experience …
Developers and Speculators
Housing has played a central role in both the Asian and global financial crises, a decade apart. While there are major differences with respect to these roles, there are also similarities, the most obvious being the links with the banking system. The impact of these crises on the housing sector has been extensively researched, but findings have been overwhelmingly based on aggregate or sector data. Using firm-level data from Malaysia on the Asian…
From obscurity to global prominence — Yiwu's emergence as an international trade hub
Social learning and dynamics of farmers’ perception towards hollowed village consolidation
Regime Changes, State-Business Ties and Remaining in the Middle-Income Trap
While Malaysia's economy is widely acknowledged as having the capacity to escape the middle-income trap and achieve highly-industrialised status, this potential has not been realised. One theoretical proposition why an economy remains mired in the middle-income trap is that the introduction of mechanisms to overcome this problem is hampered by political, not economic, matters. Malaysia serves as an interesting case to test this proposition becaus…
Technology Catch-up with Chinese Characteristics
China’s technological progress is as spectacular as the growth of its economy since 1978. Technology indicators place China just behind the United States, which has a much higher per capita income. China’s progress is material to Southeast Asia because its per capita income, being similar to that of the Association of South East Asian Nation’s, will have considerable relevance for this region; and China’s technological advance will probably inten…
Surviving Financial Crises
Most studies of financial crises focus on the impact on states, and the states’ responses. Few, if any, have focused on how these crises affect communities within the state which do not have control of the state apparatus. These groups, left out of decision-making processes and calculations by the state, suffer the most. In pre-war British Malaya and Malaysia, these groups were the Chinese overseas, Indians and some Malay minorities. A study of t…
Southeast Asia and the Asian and Global Financial Crises
Despite the deleterious impact of the 2008–09 global financial crisis, which seriously undermined mainstream economists' claims that the world economy has matured enough to prevent the return of a global depression, policymakers are still grappling with unchartered territory to insulate their economies from debilitating regional and global contagions. This article provides the introduction to a special issue targeted at dissecting the experience …
Human Trafficking in Malaysia
Recent studies have suggested that migrants are highly vulnerable to being trafficked. Malaysia, with its large number of migrants is vulnerable and is struggling to implement its Anti-Trafficking in Persons and Anti-Smuggling of Migrants Act 2007. There is also little information on implementation experience so far. Through in-depth interviews with government bureaucrats and other stakeholders, this study seeks to gain some insight into Malaysia…
From Patrimonialism to Profit
Unlike the period before World War II, the Malaysian Chinese no longer look towards China as a home they will ultimately return to. This is seen in the flow of funds to China from the Malaysian Chinese. Before the war the motivation was patrimonial. The funds were in the form of patriotic bonds and collections and remittances that went to the home provinces of the Malaysian Chinese mostly in Fujian and Guangdong. Since the 1990s the funds flow ha…
Quanzhou
Developers and Speculators
Housing has played a central role in both the Asian and global financial crises, a decade apart. While there are major differences with respect to these roles, there are also similarities, the most obvious being the links with the banking system. The impact of these crises on the housing sector has been extensively researched, but findings have been overwhelmingly based on aggregate or sector data. Using firm-level data from Malaysia on the Asian…
Pulling in one direction? Stakeholder perceptions of employability in Malaysia
This paper examines the role of higher education and higher education providers, more specifically, regarding employability. The paper draws upon a three-year research project examining the key stakeholders in this process; from parents, to students, to teachers, to institutions, to employers. The paper offers critical insight and analysis into the importance of perception, government action, institutional capability and context in the developmen…
Revisiting the Malayan Emergency
Declassified documents from China and the former Soviet Union on the Malayan ‘Emergency’ reveal not only the Chinese Communist Party’s perspective of and role in the episode, but also that China’s unwillingness to help the Malayan communists was a factor that led the latter to opt for negotiations at Baling. Other contributing factors were the Malayan government’s willingness to negotiate, the Communists’ military difficulties, and the Communist …
Southeast Asia and the Asian and Global Financial Crises
Despite the deleterious impact of the 2008–09 global financial crisis, which seriously undermined mainstream economists' claims that the world economy has matured enough to prevent the return of a global depression, policymakers are still grappling with unchartered territory to insulate their economies from debilitating regional and global contagions. This article provides the introduction to a special issue targeted at dissecting the experience …
Developers and Speculators
Housing has played a central role in both the Asian and global financial crises, a decade apart. While there are major differences with respect to these roles, there are also similarities, the most obvious being the links with the banking system. The impact of these crises on the housing sector has been extensively researched, but findings have been overwhelmingly based on aggregate or sector data. Using firm-level data from Malaysia on the Asian…
Government-linked companies and sustainable, equitable development
The debate over how far governments should intervene in economies in order to promote economic growth has taken on new vigour since the financial crisis of 2008. Many countries, many of them in Asia, have secured good economic growth after the crisis by adopting a developmental state model, with governments intervening in their economies, often supporting specific companies. This book explores debates about government intervention, assesses inter…
Surviving Financial Crises
Most studies of financial crises focus on the impact on states, and the states’ responses. Few, if any, have focused on how these crises affect communities within the state which do not have control of the state apparatus. These groups, left out of decision-making processes and calculations by the state, suffer the most. In pre-war British Malaya and Malaysia, these groups were the Chinese overseas, Indians and some Malay minorities. A study of t…
Quanzhou
From obscurity to global prominence — Yiwu's emergence as an international trade hub
Technology Catch-up with Chinese Characteristics
China’s technological progress is as spectacular as the growth of its economy since 1978. Technology indicators place China just behind the United States, which has a much higher per capita income. China’s progress is material to Southeast Asia because its per capita income, being similar to that of the Association of South East Asian Nation’s, will have considerable relevance for this region; and China’s technological advance will probably inten…
Human Trafficking in Malaysia
Recent studies have suggested that migrants are highly vulnerable to being trafficked. Malaysia, with its large number of migrants is vulnerable and is struggling to implement its Anti-Trafficking in Persons and Anti-Smuggling of Migrants Act 2007. There is also little information on implementation experience so far. Through in-depth interviews with government bureaucrats and other stakeholders, this study seeks to gain some insight into Malaysia…
From Patrimonialism to Profit
Unlike the period before World War II, the Malaysian Chinese no longer look towards China as a home they will ultimately return to. This is seen in the flow of funds to China from the Malaysian Chinese. Before the war the motivation was patrimonial. The funds were in the form of patriotic bonds and collections and remittances that went to the home provinces of the Malaysian Chinese mostly in Fujian and Guangdong. Since the 1990s the funds flow ha…
Nanning – Perils and promise of a frontier city
Revisiting the Malayan Emergency
Declassified documents from China and the former Soviet Union on the Malayan ‘Emergency’ reveal not only the Chinese Communist Party’s perspective of and role in the episode, but also that China’s unwillingness to help the Malayan communists was a factor that led the latter to opt for negotiations at Baling. Other contributing factors were the Malayan government’s willingness to negotiate, the Communists’ military difficulties, and the Communist …
Who Benefits From Development? Analyzing the Stakeholder Contestations in a Traditional Settlement of Malaysia
Urban–rural renewal is an instrument not only to manage urbanization but also for sustainable development. In this process, major stakeholders are affected differentially. The case studied here shows how the most vulnerable stakeholders are deprived of benefits in the urban–rural renewal process. Through an analysis of Mantin, a small Malaysian town, the study depicts conflicts among stakeholders. Beyond the traditional stakeholder analysis frame…
China in Malaysia
Existence of asymmetry between wages and automatable jobs
Purpose This study aims to explore, in the context of Machinery and Equipment sector of Malaysia, the association between average wages and share of employment in automatable jobs, specifically whether the association between average wages and share of employment automatable jobs is asymmetric in nature. Design/methodology/approach The responses obtained from the structured interview of 265 firms are used to build up the empirical models (conditi…
Pulling in one direction? Stakeholder perceptions of employability in Malaysia
This paper examines the role of higher education and higher education providers, more specifically, regarding employability. The paper draws upon a three-year research project examining the key stakeholders in this process; from parents, to students, to teachers, to institutions, to employers. The paper offers critical insight and analysis into the importance of perception, government action, institutional capability and context in the developmen…
Regime Changes, State-Business Ties and Remaining in the Middle-Income Trap
While Malaysia's economy is widely acknowledged as having the capacity to escape the middle-income trap and achieve highly-industrialised status, this potential has not been realised. One theoretical proposition why an economy remains mired in the middle-income trap is that the introduction of mechanisms to overcome this problem is hampered by political, not economic, matters. Malaysia serves as an interesting case to test this proposition becaus…
Social learning and dynamics of farmers’ perception towards hollowed village consolidation
Economics (14 works) · Political science (14 works) · Business (10 works) · Asian Studies and History (8 works) · China (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Socioeconomic Development in Asia (7 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Economy (5 works)