Tak‐wing Ngo
Biographic Data
| ID | 3590987 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tak‐wing Ngo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tak‐wing |
| FAMILY NAME | Ngo |
| SIGNATURE | NGO T W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Macau |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
China Information at 40
Pragmatism and Economics: A Flexible Approach to Contemporary Challenges
O pragmatismo em economia oferece uma abordagem flexível focada em abordar questões econômicas complexas por meio de soluções práticas e específicas ao contexto. Ao contrário das teorias econômicas tradicionais, baseadas em premissas rígidas, o pragmatismo enfatiza a avaliação de políticas e decisões com base em seus resultados no mundo real, em vez da adesão estrita a princípios teóricos. Historicamente, o pragmatismo influenciou a formulação de…
Gray Governance at Border Checkpoints: Regulating Shadow Trade at the Sino-Kazakh Border
Shadow trading is a common activity along state borders. Its omnipresence is puzzling because border checkpoints are highly regulated spaces that are heavily gated and securitized. Most studies attribute such a paradox to ineffective border control and corruption. However, this line of argument overlooks the peculiar nature of border and checkpoint governance. We explore this phenomenon with a case study of the Sino-Kazakh border where shadow tra…
The Political Economy of Border Checkpoints in Shadow Exchanges
This introductory article revisits cross-border shadow exchanges in a comparative perspective and reflects on their theoretical implications. It explores the diversities and complexities of shadow operations and critically examines the concept of informality that is commonly used to describe such non-state-sanctioned practices. It further underlines the key role played by checkpoint politics in border governance. Border checkpoints serve both as …
Organised Informality and Suitcase Trading in the Pearl River Delta Region
Suitcase trade is a common activity along state borders in Asia. Existing scholarship has often viewed such suitcase trade as locally embedded activities characterised by informality. This article contends that this perception underestimates the diversity and complexity of suitcase trade. This is illustrated with a case study of the Pearl River Delta region of southern China, where thousands of suitcase traders carry goods across the borders betw…
Variegated capitalism and varieties of modernity
In parallel to the controversies about multiple modernities, scholars have been debating the varieties of capitalist order that characterize a modern economy. The debate over the varieties of capitalism has major implications for our understanding of modernity. This is because capitalism is closely related to modernity. Despite the proliferation of debate and discussion on varieties of capitalism, the core of the debate remains firmly focused on …
Scalar restructuring of the Chinese state: The subnational politics of development zones
Recent studies have re-examined the implications and conceptual limitations of the theory of state rescaling in non-Western contexts. While the reconfiguration of state spaces has taken place in many countries and regions, the forces driving a state to reconfigure its spatial power and the forms of state rescaling appear to be contingent upon specific contexts. This article analyses the driving forces behind the scalar restructuring of the Chines…
Asia and the Historicity of the Market Economy
The Heterodoxy of Governance under Decentralisation: Rent-Seeking Politics in China's Tobacco Growing Areas
This paper questions the categorisation of good/bad governance and argues that such a stylised conception fails to capture the ambivalence of responsibilities and accountabilities in a political system characterised by multiple layers of authorities. Using a case study of the tobacco monopoly in China, the paper shows the contradictory goals and outcomes in different modes of operation that defy a stylised categorisation. A vigorously enforced re…
The political bases of episodic agency in the Taiwan state
Emancipating the political economy of Asia from the growth paradigm
Hong Kong Under Colonial Rule: An Introduction
The Legend of a Colony: Political Rule and Historiography in Hong Kong
Business Encirclement of Politics: Government-Business Relations across the Taiwan Strait
Regional Policy Simulations with an Interregional Input-Output Model of the Philippines
NGO T. W., JAZAYERI A. and RICHARDSON H. W. (1987) Regional policy simulations with an interregional input-output model of the Philippines, Reg. Studies 21, 121–130. A two-region (core-periphery) interregional input-output model of the Philippines is developed. Analysis of impact multipliers showed that the interregional as opposed to the intraregional contribution to national multipliers was also small and that the location of many industries in…
The Political Economy of Border Checkpoints in Shadow Exchanges
This introductory article revisits cross-border shadow exchanges in a comparative perspective and reflects on their theoretical implications. It explores the diversities and complexities of shadow operations and critically examines the concept of informality that is commonly used to describe such non-state-sanctioned practices. It further underlines the key role played by checkpoint politics in border governance. Border checkpoints serve both as …
Organised Informality and Suitcase Trading in the Pearl River Delta Region
Suitcase trade is a common activity along state borders in Asia. Existing scholarship has often viewed such suitcase trade as locally embedded activities characterised by informality. This article contends that this perception underestimates the diversity and complexity of suitcase trade. This is illustrated with a case study of the Pearl River Delta region of southern China, where thousands of suitcase traders carry goods across the borders betw…
Scalar restructuring of the Chinese state: The subnational politics of development zones
Recent studies have re-examined the implications and conceptual limitations of the theory of state rescaling in non-Western contexts. While the reconfiguration of state spaces has taken place in many countries and regions, the forces driving a state to reconfigure its spatial power and the forms of state rescaling appear to be contingent upon specific contexts. This article analyses the driving forces behind the scalar restructuring of the Chines…
The Heterodoxy of Governance under Decentralisation: Rent-Seeking Politics in China's Tobacco Growing Areas
This paper questions the categorisation of good/bad governance and argues that such a stylised conception fails to capture the ambivalence of responsibilities and accountabilities in a political system characterised by multiple layers of authorities. Using a case study of the tobacco monopoly in China, the paper shows the contradictory goals and outcomes in different modes of operation that defy a stylised categorisation. A vigorously enforced re…
The Legend of a Colony: Political Rule and Historiography in Hong Kong
Business Encirclement of Politics: Government-Business Relations across the Taiwan Strait
Gray Governance at Border Checkpoints: Regulating Shadow Trade at the Sino-Kazakh Border
Shadow trading is a common activity along state borders. Its omnipresence is puzzling because border checkpoints are highly regulated spaces that are heavily gated and securitized. Most studies attribute such a paradox to ineffective border control and corruption. However, this line of argument overlooks the peculiar nature of border and checkpoint governance. We explore this phenomenon with a case study of the Sino-Kazakh border where shadow tra…
Asia and the Historicity of the Market Economy
Regional Policy Simulations with an Interregional Input-Output Model of the Philippines
NGO T. W., JAZAYERI A. and RICHARDSON H. W. (1987) Regional policy simulations with an interregional input-output model of the Philippines, Reg. Studies 21, 121–130. A two-region (core-periphery) interregional input-output model of the Philippines is developed. Analysis of impact multipliers showed that the interregional as opposed to the intraregional contribution to national multipliers was also small and that the location of many industries in…
Business Encirclement of Politics: Government-Business Relations across the Taiwan Strait
Hong Kong Under Colonial Rule: An Introduction
The Legend of a Colony: Political Rule and Historiography in Hong Kong
The political bases of episodic agency in the Taiwan state
Emancipating the political economy of Asia from the growth paradigm
The Heterodoxy of Governance under Decentralisation: Rent-Seeking Politics in China's Tobacco Growing Areas
This paper questions the categorisation of good/bad governance and argues that such a stylised conception fails to capture the ambivalence of responsibilities and accountabilities in a political system characterised by multiple layers of authorities. Using a case study of the tobacco monopoly in China, the paper shows the contradictory goals and outcomes in different modes of operation that defy a stylised categorisation. A vigorously enforced re…
Asia and the Historicity of the Market Economy
Scalar restructuring of the Chinese state: The subnational politics of development zones
Recent studies have re-examined the implications and conceptual limitations of the theory of state rescaling in non-Western contexts. While the reconfiguration of state spaces has taken place in many countries and regions, the forces driving a state to reconfigure its spatial power and the forms of state rescaling appear to be contingent upon specific contexts. This article analyses the driving forces behind the scalar restructuring of the Chines…
Variegated capitalism and varieties of modernity
In parallel to the controversies about multiple modernities, scholars have been debating the varieties of capitalist order that characterize a modern economy. The debate over the varieties of capitalism has major implications for our understanding of modernity. This is because capitalism is closely related to modernity. Despite the proliferation of debate and discussion on varieties of capitalism, the core of the debate remains firmly focused on …
The Political Economy of Border Checkpoints in Shadow Exchanges
This introductory article revisits cross-border shadow exchanges in a comparative perspective and reflects on their theoretical implications. It explores the diversities and complexities of shadow operations and critically examines the concept of informality that is commonly used to describe such non-state-sanctioned practices. It further underlines the key role played by checkpoint politics in border governance. Border checkpoints serve both as …
Organised Informality and Suitcase Trading in the Pearl River Delta Region
Suitcase trade is a common activity along state borders in Asia. Existing scholarship has often viewed such suitcase trade as locally embedded activities characterised by informality. This article contends that this perception underestimates the diversity and complexity of suitcase trade. This is illustrated with a case study of the Pearl River Delta region of southern China, where thousands of suitcase traders carry goods across the borders betw…
Gray Governance at Border Checkpoints: Regulating Shadow Trade at the Sino-Kazakh Border
Shadow trading is a common activity along state borders. Its omnipresence is puzzling because border checkpoints are highly regulated spaces that are heavily gated and securitized. Most studies attribute such a paradox to ineffective border control and corruption. However, this line of argument overlooks the peculiar nature of border and checkpoint governance. We explore this phenomenon with a case study of the Sino-Kazakh border where shadow tra…
Pragmatism and Economics: A Flexible Approach to Contemporary Challenges
O pragmatismo em economia oferece uma abordagem flexível focada em abordar questões econômicas complexas por meio de soluções práticas e específicas ao contexto. Ao contrário das teorias econômicas tradicionais, baseadas em premissas rígidas, o pragmatismo enfatiza a avaliação de políticas e decisões com base em seus resultados no mundo real, em vez da adesão estrita a princípios teóricos. Historicamente, o pragmatismo influenciou a formulação de…
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Political science (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Economics (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Economic system (5 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works)