Browsing by Supervisor "Lim, Steven"
Now showing items 1-13 of 13
-
Development and Conflict: The Economic Impacts of Civil War in Swat: Pakistan
(University of Waikato, 2015)Violent conflicts have economic causes and economic consequences. In addition to the lost lives, injuries and the overall scale of human suffering that conflicts create, they also destroy assets and institutions. The ... -
Dynamics of land use and land cover changes in China
(The University of Waikato, 2018)A key contribution of environmental economics to policy making has been to provide empirical indicators of sustainable economic development. An economy is (weakly) sustainable if it saves more than the combined depreciation ... -
The Economic Impacts of Migrant Maids in Malaysia
(University of Waikato, 2011)Demand for migrant maids by households in Malaysia has increased rapidly as more married women choose to participate in the workforce. Simple comparisons of households with maids and those without suggest that hiring maids ... -
Export participation, employee benefits, and firm performance: The evidence from Vietnam’s manufacturing SMEs
(University of Waikato, 2014)Vietnam has seen a significant rise in the number of SMEs since introducing the Enterprise Law in 2000. Non-state SMEs are playing a key role in economic growth, creating jobs, and reducing poverty. However, these non-state ... -
Farmland Acquisition and Household Livelihoods in Hanoi's Peri-Urban Areas
(University of Waikato, 2013)While farmland loss (due to urbanisation and industrialisation) causes job losses for a huge number of farmers and threatens food security, it can bring about a wide range of new job opportunities for local people through ... -
Federalism and resource conflict: Assessing the impact of federalism in curbing conflict over petroleum resource revenues - A case study of Nigeria and Canada
(University of Waikato, 2016)This thesis focuses on lingering conflict over natural resource revenues which has ravaged many countries. The problem has no doubt attracted the attention of researchers who have approached it, mostly, from the angle of ... -
Measuring the Impact of HIV/AIDS on Economic Development in Zambia
(University of Waikato, 2011)Zambia is one of the sub-Saharan African countries with the highest rates of HIV/AIDS prevalence in the world. One in seven adults is HIV positive and the epidemic disproportionately affects better educated and wealthy ... -
Postal Reform in Japan: A Comparative New Zealand–Japan Study of Economic Issues in Privatising a Postal System
(University of Waikato, 2017)The purpose of this thesis is to analyse the economic issues in the postal reform experiences of New Zealand and Japan. New Zealand’s reforms were conducted in the 1980s. Its experience raises questions about what factors ... -
Poverty impacts of agricultural trade liberalisation in Sri Lanka
(University of Waikato, 2015)There remains controversy over whether trade liberalisation in general, and agricultural trade liberalisation in particular, leads to poverty reduction in developing countries. Since the impacts of agricultural trade ... -
Quality of Life - Impacts from the Family Planning Policy in China
(The University of Waikato, 2018)The relationship between population size, the quality of human capital, and the quality of life, interests social scientists. This topic is particularly important in China, where a previous ‘demographic gift’ is becoming ... -
Sustainable livelihood development: A case study measuring social capital and its role in sustainable livelihood development in Zoucheng, China
(University of Waikato, 2017)This thesis is to discover whether the strength of social capital can alter household livelihoods and their sustainability. The intention of this thesis is to answer two questions: (1) Can different types of social ties ... -
The Stock Market, the Housing Market and Consumption
(University of Waikato, 2014)There is a long history of examining the relationship between consumption and wealth. The recent subprime mortgage crisis in the US and the European sovereign debt crisis associated with the remarkable fluctuations in both ... -
Trade and investment effects of free trade agreements: The case of Vietnam
(The University of Waikato, 2020)Regional trade agreements (RTAs) are reciprocal trade agreements between two or more partners. The relatively recent emergence of deep and comprehensive RTAs is expected to have substantial impacts on members, especially ...
