Gene Lim
Biographic Data
| ID | 351895 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gene Lim |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gene |
| FAMILY NAME | Lim |
| SIGNATURE | LIM G |
| AFFILIATIONS | La Trobe University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9083-8883 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 139 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 49 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Bi+ Cisgender People’s Mental Health, Smoking, and Alcohol Consumption as a Function of Their Relationship Configuration
Multigender attracted (Bi+) people potentially face different experiences and challenges depending on the gender of their relationship partner/s. While those in same-gender relationships may be subject to anti-LGBTQA+ discrimination or abuse, those in opposite-gender relationships may experience greater distress associated with the invisibility or erasure of their sexual identities. These experiences may in turn impact the mental health of Bi+ pe…
More local than global: Rethinking sovereign wealth and state capitalism in Saudi Arabia, Kazakhstan, and Malaysia
The Public Investment Fund (PIF) of Saudi Arabia has gained prominence in Middle Eastern and global markets through high-profile projects such as the futuristic city of Neom and the acquisition of English football club Newcastle United. These initiatives have drawn international attention to the PIF’s expanding scale and scope of activities, prompting debates over market distortions abroad and governance, accountability, and social justice at hom…
Transactional Intimacy and Structural Vulnerability: Compensated Dating among LGBTQA + Youth in Japan
Very little is known about the practice of compensated dating among LGBTQA + youth in Japan. This is a critical gap in research, as compensated dating (enjo kōsai) is more commonly reported among young people experiencing economic hardship, social exclusion, or housing instability. LGBTQA + youth in Japan are disproportionately affected by structural vulnerabilities, yet their experiences remain underexamined in national data. This study examines…
Vietnam’s growing economic integration with the world: More or less Asian
Asia in flux: Network power, new regionalism, and global development
This article introduces the special issue titled ‘Asia in flux: network power, new regionalism, and global development’. Alongside the other 13 articles, it examines the dynamics of Asian regionalisation through three interlinked themes: trade/production regimes, financial flows, and sociocultural networks. The collective message is that industrial upgrading across the region is rarely automatic, and very few economies have fully overcome the une…
Sex education on the newsfeed: Exploring young people’s incidental exposure to information about sex and relationships
With the increased use of data-driven algorithmic curation of social media content and online advertising, young people are increasingly likely to come across content related to sex, sexuality and relationships that they have not searched for (i.e. non-intentional or incidental exposure). This study sought to explore incidental exposure to content about sex, sexuality and relationships among young people in Australia and considers both the applic…
Prevalence and perpetration contexts of sexual violence among cisgender LGBQ+ adults in Australia
This article analyses the lifetime and 12-month prevalence of sexual violence victimisation in a sample of 5,267 cisgender lesbian, gay, bi/pansexual, queer or other non-heterosexual participants in Australia. The study explores three research questions in relation to cisgender LGBQ+ respondents: (1) the prevalence of sexual violence among respondents and differences by gender and sexuality; (2) the gender of perpetrators of sexual violence again…
Delineating the Distribution and Impact of Homelessness Among a Large Sample of LGBTQ + People in Australia
Introduction LGBTQ+ adults in Australia experience disproportionately high rates of homelessness, a major source of morbidity in this population. Despite this, research into the social distribution and structural drivers of homelessness among LGBTQ+ people remains limited. Methods We analyzed data from a nationwide survey of 6045 LGBTQ+ adults in Australia. Using logistic regression models adjusted for age and income, we examined the prevalence a…
Exploring trans youths’ future orientations as a product of experiences of dis/affirmation
Trans youths’ future orientations are important but seldom discussed within the literature. Compared to their cisgender peers, the developmental trajectories of this group are characterised by considerable change, and highly subject to prevailing political climates. Here, we explore trans youths’ future orientations as a product of present-day experiences of identity-affirming factors. Some 1679 trans youth aged 14–21 responded to two open-ended …
Affective Barriers to Accessing Professionalized Intimate Partner Violence Services Among LGBTQ People in Australia
LGBTQ victim-survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) encounter numerous obstacles to accessing professionalized support, including internal factors that engender reluctance to engage in professionalized services. This gap in knowledge constitutes a limiting factor to the uptake of these services, even when significant effort has been made to accommodate these individuals. Semi-structured life history interviews were conducted with ( N = 30) …
Solidarity with IPV Perpetrators as a Challenge to Help-Seeking for LGBTQ + Victim-Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence
Purpose Existing research highlights how relationship ideologies and schemas can complicate help-seeking for victim-survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV). However, this perspective is largely absent in studies focusing on LGBTQ + victim-survivors. Available evidence indicates that similar schemas are relevant to LGBTQ + victim-survivors, particularly those that engender a sense of solidarity and relational loyalty with individuals who shar…
Missing voices: Building women living with HIV’s meaningful engagement in HIV clinical and cure research
Women living with HIV are consistently under-represented in HIV clinical trials, including cure trials. Little is known about how cisgender women living with HIV in Australia perceive HIV cure research, their level of trust in research institutions/staff, and factors salient to participation in HIV cure trials. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with women living with HIV and clinicians working with women living with HIV to investigate mot…
China’s Investment and Trade in Bangladesh: Local Realities and Global Implications
In the wake of its burgeoning outward foreign direct investment (FDI) and export activities over the past decades, China’s presence in the global economy has attracted considerable attention. This discussion is witnessed just as much in Bangladesh, the main subject of this paper. Especially after the 2013 launch of the ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), Chinese economic footprint has noticeably increased in the South Asian country. Yet, th…
Digital sexual literacy: The potential for online spaces to support sexual literacy among young people
Introduction Health literacy is defined as the capacity, resources and insight to seek information, ask critical questions and be an advocate for one’s health. Sexual literacy is framed in similar terms, relating to the capacity to navigate emotionally and physically safe sexual encounters and to hold a critical and assertive stance on relationship dynamics, gender and consent. In this paper, we present findings from a qualitative study that expl…
Typologies of alcohol and other drug‐related risk among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (trans) and queer adults
Khoo Boo Teik. Anwar Ibrahim: Tenacious in Dissent, Hopeful in Power
Community connection is associated with lower psychological distress for sexual minority women who view community connection positively
We examined factors associated with sexual minority women's evaluations of belonging to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) community in Australia, and assessed whether a positive view of community participation impacted levels of psychological distress. 2424 cisgender sexual minority women participated in a national, online, cross-sectional survey of LGBTIQ adult Australians' health and well-being. Multivariable regression …
Understanding the distribution of recent deliberate self-harm among young LGBTQ+ australians
Psychological distress mediates the link between bullying and truancy in Australian LGBQ+ adolescents with experiences of homelessness
Homelessness is a high prevalence experience among lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer (LGBQ+) youth, and potentiates both significant morbidity and future homelessness. While educational attainment is cited as a structural solution to homelessness, limited research exists on homeless LGBQ+ youths' schooling experiences. A nationwide, cross-sectional survey involving 4,370 cisgender LGBQ+ participants aged 14–21 was conducted to address this gap. R…
Chinese investment in Southeast Asia: (How) Does It Matter
Chinese Investment in Malaysia: (De)Industrialization amidst Greater Financial and Trade Connectivity
On the Structural Conditions Shaping Implementation of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ)-Inclusive Practices Within Intimate Partner Services in Australia
Purpose IPV constitutes a serious health concern for LGBTQ populations within Australia, yet inclusive service provision remains sparsely and unevenly accessible to victim-survivors. While poor availability and accessibility of inclusive services is widely recognized as an issue facing LGBTQ victim-survivors, few researchers have examined the structural or systemic basis of this problem. The current piece seeks to explore the structural condition…
Foreign Investment, State Capitalism, and National Development in Borneo: Rethinking Brunei–China Economic Relations
Faced with dwindling oil and gas reserves, Brunei has been hard-pressed to diversify its reliance on hydrocarbon. China has emerged as an attractive prospect to the Brunei government, especially since the launch of the Belt and Road Initiative. This article analyses a few major Chinese projects in Brunei and postulates three interrelated arguments. Firstly, Chinese investors have targeted Brunei's natural resources and fiscal incentives. These fi…
The China effect on regional economic integration: A longitudinal study of Central, South, and Southeast Asia
Does China’s growing economic presence pose an opportunity or a threat to regional economic integration? The authors answer this question by analyzing longitudinal and cross-country evidence from three regions, Central, South, and Southeast Asia. A unique panel dataset detailing bilateral economic cooperation and each economy’s political-economic factors from 2000 to 2019 was examined. This study concludes that (1) inbound foreign direct investme…
Evidence to Act: LGBTIQ-Inclusive Family Violence Service Provision in Australia and the Politicisation of Data Gaps
Purpose There are inadequate resources available to support lesbian, gay, bi + , trans and gender diverse, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) people experiencing family violence in Australia. Government funding agencies and mainstream family violence service providers regularly state that there is insufficient evidence to justify investment in more inclusive services. This article explores practitioner perceptions of such claims. Method 21 practitioners…
The Political Economy of a Rising China in Southeast Asia: Malaysia’s Response to the Belt and Road Initiative
Disputing research that depicts weak states getting overwhelmed by China’s financial might, this article argues that the political elites in a relatively weak and small state such as Malaysia are adept in engaging with a rising China to advance key projects, furthering their own agenda. In the case of Malaysia, the eventual outcome of this interaction is dependent on three key conditions: fulfilment of Malaysia’s longstanding pro-ethnic Malay pol…
Why is it so hard to push Chinese railway projects in Southeast Asia? The role of domestic politics in Malaysia and Indonesia
Chinese financial statecraft in Southeast Asia: An analysis of China’s infrastructure provision in Malaysia
Since 2013, the Belt and Road Initiative has become China’s signature foreign economic policy campaign. While there have been debates on the initiative’s implementation and implications, an emerging consensus suggests that the export of capital-intensive infrastructure is a key driving factor of China’s financial statecraft. For Southeast Asian countries, such Chinese efforts are useful in plugging their domestic infrastructure gaps, not least in…
LGBTQ Victim-Survivors' Experiences and Negotiations of Service Worker and Service System Discrimination
Purpose This study examined the experiences of LGBTQ victim-survivors who sought out support from domestic violence services in Australia. While the literature on intimate partner violence (IPV) is increasingly focused on improving LGBTQ inclusivity and cultural safety within both service and policy contexts, the experiences of LGBTQ victim-survivors themselves are often absent from these discussions. Consequently, little is understood about how …
Discrimination at the Intersections: Experiences of Community and Belonging in Nonmonosexual Persons of Color
Researchers have established that both nonmonosexual, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ) persons of Color face unique forms of alienation. However, little work has been undertaken to examine how these identities interface with one another. The authors conducted in-depth interviews with nonmonosexual persons of Color (n = 5) and nonmonosexual White persons (n = 5) residing in Melbourne, Australia to explore intersections of rac…
Trans and Gender‐Diverse peoples’ experiences of crisis helpline services
Crisis helplines are typically easily accessible and deliver interventions in a timely manner, regardless of geographical location. The efficacy and user experiences of these services are the subject of considerable interest within the field, but the experiences of trans and gender-diverse individuals remain unexplored despite high rates of mental ill health being documented in this population. A total of 134 trans and gender-diverse Australians …
Evolving State-Business Relations in an Age of Globalisation: An Introduction
This article introduces the feature section "Evolving State–Business Relations in an Age of Globalisation" in this issue of the journal. That feature section examines state–business relations across the Asian region, from South Korea to Turkey. It focuses on networked forms of co-ordination between state and non-state (or private) actors who collectively shape how an economy evolves. This article and those of the feature section deal with three i…
Demographic predictors of experiences of homelessness among lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, gender-diverse and queer-identifying (LGBTIQ) young people in Australia
Homelessness among young lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, gender-diverse and queer-identifying (LGBTQ+) persons is highly prevalent and constitutes a structural risk to health and future life chances. However, the distribution of homelessness burden is among different LGBTQ+ subgroups is poorly understood. An Australia-wide cross-sectional online survey was conducted involving 6,481 LGBTQ+ participants aged 14–21 years during 2019. Single-predictor…
The experiences of lesbian, gay and bisexual people accessing mental health crisis support helplines in Australia
Available evidence affirms the effectiveness- of crisis helpline services in providing appropriate short-term intervention for many groups, but the unique needs of sexual minority adult callers may prevent them from deriving similar therapeutic benefit. Two hundred and forty-eight sexual minority adults from across Australia were asked about a previous personal crisis where they had accessed, or had considered accessing, a crisis helpline service…
On the Structural Conditions Shaping Implementation of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ)-Inclusive Practices Within Intimate Partner Services in Australia
Purpose IPV constitutes a serious health concern for LGBTQ populations within Australia, yet inclusive service provision remains sparsely and unevenly accessible to victim-survivors. While poor availability and accessibility of inclusive services is widely recognized as an issue facing LGBTQ victim-survivors, few researchers have examined the structural or systemic basis of this problem. The current piece seeks to explore the structural condition…
Leading sector and dual economy: How Indonesia and Malaysia mobilised Chinese capital in mineral processing
How do states pursue industrial policies in the context of China’s rise? Examining Indonesia and Malaysia’s mineral processing sectors, we argue that these countries illustrate two different pathways that states take to bolster their industrial policies. Indonesia has followed the leading sector strategy to increase domestic nickel processing capacity and decrease reliance on resource exports. Chinese firms and the Indonesian government built the…
Neo-Liberalism, the Rise of the Unelected and Policymaking in Thailand: The Case of the Medical Tourism Industry
This article discusses how neo-liberal ideas about development take root when they encounter the very different political and economic context of a developing economy. It analyses Thailand’s medical tourism industry, earmarked by Thailand’s government as one of several priority industries to boost the economy in the aftermath of the 1997 Asian Economic Crisis, which ravaged Thailand and ushered in a group of unelected actors-“reign-seekers”-inten…
Foreign Investment, State Capitalism, and National Development in Borneo: Rethinking Brunei–China Economic Relations
Faced with dwindling oil and gas reserves, Brunei has been hard-pressed to diversify its reliance on hydrocarbon. China has emerged as an attractive prospect to the Brunei government, especially since the launch of the Belt and Road Initiative. This article analyses a few major Chinese projects in Brunei and postulates three interrelated arguments. Firstly, Chinese investors have targeted Brunei's natural resources and fiscal incentives. These fi…
The Economic Geographies of Aquaculture
Fish protein is projected to make up increasing proportions of our protein intake in the years to come with increasing supply coming from aquaculture. Despite its fast increasing economic importance, there is a relative paucity of research on aquaculture from the standpoint of economic geography. This paper contributes to this literature by first reviewing the socio-economics of certification of fish and the role of aquaculture in economic develo…
Psychological distress mediates the link between bullying and truancy in Australian LGBQ+ adolescents with experiences of homelessness
Homelessness is a high prevalence experience among lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer (LGBQ+) youth, and potentiates both significant morbidity and future homelessness. While educational attainment is cited as a structural solution to homelessness, limited research exists on homeless LGBQ+ youths' schooling experiences. A nationwide, cross-sectional survey involving 4,370 cisgender LGBQ+ participants aged 14–21 was conducted to address this gap. R…
The China effect on regional economic integration: A longitudinal study of Central, South, and Southeast Asia
Does China’s growing economic presence pose an opportunity or a threat to regional economic integration? The authors answer this question by analyzing longitudinal and cross-country evidence from three regions, Central, South, and Southeast Asia. A unique panel dataset detailing bilateral economic cooperation and each economy’s political-economic factors from 2000 to 2019 was examined. This study concludes that (1) inbound foreign direct investme…
Evidence to Act: LGBTIQ-Inclusive Family Violence Service Provision in Australia and the Politicisation of Data Gaps
Purpose There are inadequate resources available to support lesbian, gay, bi + , trans and gender diverse, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) people experiencing family violence in Australia. Government funding agencies and mainstream family violence service providers regularly state that there is insufficient evidence to justify investment in more inclusive services. This article explores practitioner perceptions of such claims. Method 21 practitioners…
Capital mobility and centre–state relations: Unpacking the spatial configuration of real estate investment in Iskandar Malaysia
Iskandar Malaysia – in the southern state of Johor – was conceptualized in 2006 as a high-impact project by Malaysian economic planners. However, its development has generally been uneven, with centre–state governmental discoordination a constant flashpoint. This dynamic, as the paper argues, is manifested through the federal and Johor governments’ facilitation of capital to push their respective real estate projects, thereby exerting economic an…
A typology of agricultural production systems: Capability building trajectories of three Asian economies
Analysing the agricultural sectors of Taiwan, Malaysia and Singapore, this paper examines the capability‐building process that encourages productivity and innovation. It describes and explains the origins and subsequent evolution of three forms of agricultural production system, each generating different farming capabilities and distinct forms of competitive advantages. The paper argues that Taiwan's rice‐oriented agricultural production system s…
Public policy with Vietnamese characteristics: The case of the motorcycle industry
This paper analyses Vietnam’s motorcycle industry, one of the industries earmarked for economic reform since the late 1980s. The paper argues that the Vietnamese state has nurtured its previously derelict motorcycle industry to one that is internationally competitive through the implementation of market-distorting policy measures as well as the selective co-optation of international capital. Nevertheless, there is a limit to Vietnam’s policy mano…
Managing Technological Development: A Study of Vietnam’s Telecommunication Goods Industry
This paper examines Vietnam's international trade competitiveness in the telecommunication goods industry. Comparing Vietnam's performance to those of its more advanced ASEAN-3 rivals (Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand), the paper argues that Vietnam has overcome its initial technological backwardness. Nevertheless, Vietnam's continued ability to climb the technological ladder depends on the efficacy of its industrial policy as well as the vitali…
The Internationalisation of Mainland Chinese Firms into Malaysia: From Obligated Embeddedness to Active Embeddedness
This paper examines the rationale by which mainland Chinese firms choose their coalition partners in their Malaysian ventures. I explore how, under certain political economic conditions, such cross-border investment and corporate tie-ups can be shaped to meet the Malaysian state's objectives. I argue that the Malaysian state has enjoyed success in the construction sector by nurturing cooperation between its carefully groomed government-linked com…
The Internationalisation of Mainland Chinese Firms into Malaysia: From Obligated Embeddedness to Active Embeddedness
This paper examines the rationale by which mainland Chinese firms choose their coalition partners in their Malaysian ventures. I explore how, under certain political economic conditions, such cross-border investment and corporate tie-ups can be shaped to meet the Malaysian state's objectives. I argue that the Malaysian state has enjoyed success in the construction sector by nurturing cooperation between its carefully groomed government-linked com…
The Economic Geographies of Aquaculture
Fish protein is projected to make up increasing proportions of our protein intake in the years to come with increasing supply coming from aquaculture. Despite its fast increasing economic importance, there is a relative paucity of research on aquaculture from the standpoint of economic geography. This paper contributes to this literature by first reviewing the socio-economics of certification of fish and the role of aquaculture in economic develo…
China and the Middle East: From Silk Road to Arab Spring
This book examines the relationship between China and the Middle East in an historical context. Illustrating China's bilateral relationship with key Middle Eastern countries, the book unpacks the S
Firm entry modes and Chinese business networks: Malaysian investments in Vietnam
This paper examines the Malaysian Chinese firms that have expanded into Vietnam. Based on research and qualitative personal interviews with Malaysian Chinese firms that have invested in Vietnam, the paper unpacks the entry modes that these firms have undertaken. It argues that the Malaysian Chinese firms prefer joint ventures in their Vietnamese businesses to wholly‐owned subsidiaries and personal direct investments. This paper also argues that s…
Managing Technological Development: A Study of Vietnam’s Telecommunication Goods Industry
This paper examines Vietnam's international trade competitiveness in the telecommunication goods industry. Comparing Vietnam's performance to those of its more advanced ASEAN-3 rivals (Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand), the paper argues that Vietnam has overcome its initial technological backwardness. Nevertheless, Vietnam's continued ability to climb the technological ladder depends on the efficacy of its industrial policy as well as the vitali…
Public policy with Vietnamese characteristics: The case of the motorcycle industry
This paper analyses Vietnam’s motorcycle industry, one of the industries earmarked for economic reform since the late 1980s. The paper argues that the Vietnamese state has nurtured its previously derelict motorcycle industry to one that is internationally competitive through the implementation of market-distorting policy measures as well as the selective co-optation of international capital. Nevertheless, there is a limit to Vietnam’s policy mano…
Climbing the economic ladder: The role of outward foreign direct investment
This paper argues that, under certain conditions, outward foreign direct investment (FDI) can promote economic development in the home economies from which the investment originates. It presents a conceptual framework incorporating simultaneously the complex interrelationships between the three main tenets shaping the developmental outcomes of outward FDI – the home economy conditions that induce firms to invest abroad; the role of the state in l…
Discrimination at the Intersections: Experiences of Community and Belonging in Nonmonosexual Persons of Color
Researchers have established that both nonmonosexual, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ) persons of Color face unique forms of alienation. However, little work has been undertaken to examine how these identities interface with one another. The authors conducted in-depth interviews with nonmonosexual persons of Color (n = 5) and nonmonosexual White persons (n = 5) residing in Melbourne, Australia to explore intersections of rac…
The Political Economy of a Rising China in Southeast Asia: Malaysia’s Response to the Belt and Road Initiative
Disputing research that depicts weak states getting overwhelmed by China’s financial might, this article argues that the political elites in a relatively weak and small state such as Malaysia are adept in engaging with a rising China to advance key projects, furthering their own agenda. In the case of Malaysia, the eventual outcome of this interaction is dependent on three key conditions: fulfilment of Malaysia’s longstanding pro-ethnic Malay pol…
A typology of agricultural production systems: Capability building trajectories of three Asian economies
Analysing the agricultural sectors of Taiwan, Malaysia and Singapore, this paper examines the capability‐building process that encourages productivity and innovation. It describes and explains the origins and subsequent evolution of three forms of agricultural production system, each generating different farming capabilities and distinct forms of competitive advantages. The paper argues that Taiwan's rice‐oriented agricultural production system s…
A Nanyang Approach to the Belt and Road Initiative: Malaysia and Its Dilemmas
Why is it so hard to push Chinese railway projects in Southeast Asia? The role of domestic politics in Malaysia and Indonesia
From Free Port to Modern Economy: Economic Development and Social Change in Penang, 1969 to 1990 ed. by Chet Singh et al
Reviewed by: From Free Port to Modern Economy: Economic Development and Social Change in Penang, 1969 to 1990 ed. by Chet Singh et al. Guanie Lim From Free Port to Modern Economy: Economic Development and Social Change in Penang, 1969 to 1990. Edited by CHET SINGH, RAJAH RASIAH, WONG YEE TUAN. Penang and Singapore: Penang Institute and ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute, 2019. 274pp. ISBN 978-981-4843-96-6 This book provides a multidimensional perspecti…
The experiences of lesbian, gay and bisexual people accessing mental health crisis support helplines in Australia
Available evidence affirms the effectiveness- of crisis helpline services in providing appropriate short-term intervention for many groups, but the unique needs of sexual minority adult callers may prevent them from deriving similar therapeutic benefit. Two hundred and forty-eight sexual minority adults from across Australia were asked about a previous personal crisis where they had accessed, or had considered accessing, a crisis helpline service…
Trans and Gender‐Diverse peoples’ experiences of crisis helpline services
Crisis helplines are typically easily accessible and deliver interventions in a timely manner, regardless of geographical location. The efficacy and user experiences of these services are the subject of considerable interest within the field, but the experiences of trans and gender-diverse individuals remain unexplored despite high rates of mental ill health being documented in this population. A total of 134 trans and gender-diverse Australians …
Chinese financial statecraft in Southeast Asia: An analysis of China’s infrastructure provision in Malaysia
Since 2013, the Belt and Road Initiative has become China’s signature foreign economic policy campaign. While there have been debates on the initiative’s implementation and implications, an emerging consensus suggests that the export of capital-intensive infrastructure is a key driving factor of China’s financial statecraft. For Southeast Asian countries, such Chinese efforts are useful in plugging their domestic infrastructure gaps, not least in…
Evolving State-Business Relations in an Age of Globalisation: An Introduction
This article introduces the feature section "Evolving State–Business Relations in an Age of Globalisation" in this issue of the journal. That feature section examines state–business relations across the Asian region, from South Korea to Turkey. It focuses on networked forms of co-ordination between state and non-state (or private) actors who collectively shape how an economy evolves. This article and those of the feature section deal with three i…
Neo-Liberalism, the Rise of the Unelected and Policymaking in Thailand: The Case of the Medical Tourism Industry
This article discusses how neo-liberal ideas about development take root when they encounter the very different political and economic context of a developing economy. It analyses Thailand’s medical tourism industry, earmarked by Thailand’s government as one of several priority industries to boost the economy in the aftermath of the 1997 Asian Economic Crisis, which ravaged Thailand and ushered in a group of unelected actors-“reign-seekers”-inten…
Capital mobility and centre–state relations: Unpacking the spatial configuration of real estate investment in Iskandar Malaysia
Iskandar Malaysia – in the southern state of Johor – was conceptualized in 2006 as a high-impact project by Malaysian economic planners. However, its development has generally been uneven, with centre–state governmental discoordination a constant flashpoint. This dynamic, as the paper argues, is manifested through the federal and Johor governments’ facilitation of capital to push their respective real estate projects, thereby exerting economic an…
States and Societies in Motion: Essays in Honour of Takashi Shiraishi Khoo Boo Teik and Jafar Suryomenggolo (eds) Copenhagen: Nias Press (In Association with National Graduate Institute for Policy Stu…
States and Societies in Motion: Essays in Honour of Takashi Shiraishi Khoo Boo Teik and Jafar Suryomenggolo (eds) Copenhagen: NIAS Press (In Association with National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies), 2021. - Volume 23 Issue 4
Leading sector and dual economy: How Indonesia and Malaysia mobilised Chinese capital in mineral processing
How do states pursue industrial policies in the context of China’s rise? Examining Indonesia and Malaysia’s mineral processing sectors, we argue that these countries illustrate two different pathways that states take to bolster their industrial policies. Indonesia has followed the leading sector strategy to increase domestic nickel processing capacity and decrease reliance on resource exports. Chinese firms and the Indonesian government built the…
Foreign Investment, State Capitalism, and National Development in Borneo: Rethinking Brunei–China Economic Relations
Faced with dwindling oil and gas reserves, Brunei has been hard-pressed to diversify its reliance on hydrocarbon. China has emerged as an attractive prospect to the Brunei government, especially since the launch of the Belt and Road Initiative. This article analyses a few major Chinese projects in Brunei and postulates three interrelated arguments. Firstly, Chinese investors have targeted Brunei's natural resources and fiscal incentives. These fi…
The China effect on regional economic integration: A longitudinal study of Central, South, and Southeast Asia
Does China’s growing economic presence pose an opportunity or a threat to regional economic integration? The authors answer this question by analyzing longitudinal and cross-country evidence from three regions, Central, South, and Southeast Asia. A unique panel dataset detailing bilateral economic cooperation and each economy’s political-economic factors from 2000 to 2019 was examined. This study concludes that (1) inbound foreign direct investme…
Evidence to Act: LGBTIQ-Inclusive Family Violence Service Provision in Australia and the Politicisation of Data Gaps
Purpose There are inadequate resources available to support lesbian, gay, bi + , trans and gender diverse, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) people experiencing family violence in Australia. Government funding agencies and mainstream family violence service providers regularly state that there is insufficient evidence to justify investment in more inclusive services. This article explores practitioner perceptions of such claims. Method 21 practitioners…
Supplier Networks at the Integrated Peripheries of the Automobile Industry: The Case of Keiretsu Suppliers in Thailand
The formation of supplier networks at the integrated peripheries is a complex process and results from variegated strategies adopted by firms seeking to adapt to the specificities of each host state. This study aims to provide a preliminary explanation of these patterns by focusing on the case of tier 1 suppliers serving Japanese car manufacturers in Thailand. The empirical data, which capture supply relationships for five different car parts and…
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