The Migration of Indian Human Capital: The Ebb and Flow of Indian Professionals in Southeast Asia“.

Charter and ASEAN blueprint towards the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) in 2015, has been agreed by the members, characterized by a new round of joint commitment that is legally binding. AEC Blueprint will give direction of ASEAN as a regional production base and single market. The blueprint is supported by the five essential pillars namely: the free flow of goods, services, investment, skilled labor, and freer flow of capital. Efforts to realize the ASEAN as a regional production base and single market is certainly provides a lot of great opportunities and challenges for Indonesia. In this regard, the main sectors which require improvement are professional human capital and competent. Without improvements in this sector, efforts to achieve the Indonesian government for human capital to compete with other countries in Southeast Asia will be difficult. Therefore, in facing such competition, the Indonesian government should prepare a Human Resources (HR) were skilled, intelligent and competitive that Indonesian human resources able to compete.

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2. Future Ageing in Southeast Asia: Demographic Trends, Human Capital, and Health Status

Older Persons in Southeast Asia ◽

10.1355/9789812309457-008 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 47-68 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Keyword(s):

Human Capital ◽

Health Status ◽

Southeast Asia ◽

Demographic Trends

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Crisis and Reformation in a Maritime Kingdom of Southeast Asia: Forces of Instability and Political Disintegration in Western Burma (Arakan), 1603-1701

Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient ◽

10.1163/1568520982601287 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 41 (2) ◽

pp. 185-219 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Michael Charney

Keyword(s):

Seventeenth Century ◽

Southeast Asia ◽

Ethnic Groups ◽

Port Cities ◽

Material Resources ◽

Special Place ◽

Peculiar Nature ◽

Ebb And Flow

AbstractThis study of the initial collapse, revival, and finally a resumption of decline in the seventeenth century of the maritime kingdom of Arakan (in western Burma) attempts to establish a special place for Arakan in the general historiography of the seventeenth-century crisis in Southeast Asia. The unusual experience of Arakan in the seventeenth century was in large part due to both the blockades by autonomous Portuguese freebooters in the first two decades of the seventeenth century and the peculiar nature of a new trading relationship from the 1630s until the 1660s between the Arakanese and the Dutch, based on the Arakanese supply of slaves and rice to Dutch port-cities and plantations. The ebb and flow of Arakanese fortunes throughout the century were thus tied to the fortunes of the Dutch. Expanding Asian empires in Bengal and Burma also influenced the decline of the Arakanese maritime polity after the Dutch withdrew from Arakan in the 1660s. Afterwards, as the material resources of the Arakanese central court declined, the Arakanese littoral became politically fragmented, characterized and sustained by the rise of rival political centers and the rebellions of non-Arakanese ethnic groups who had been captured abroad and resettled in the Arakanese littoral. Arakan thus experienced its “own” crisis in the seventeenth century, a watershed that gives it a peculiar niche in the seventeenth-century history not only of Southeast Asia as a whole, but of the mainland in particular.

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The Elasticity of Health Expenditure on Agricultural Productivity Growth in Southeast Asia

Asia Pacific Journal of Health Management ◽

10.24083/apjhm.v16i2.699 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 16 (2) ◽

pp. 109-115

Author(s):

Muhammad Muazu Bala ◽

Shailender Singh ◽

Hawati Janor

Keyword(s):

Human Capital ◽

Southeast Asia ◽

Empirical Evidence ◽

Productivity Growth ◽

Capital Stock ◽

Health Expenditure ◽

Population Aging ◽

Agricultural Productivity ◽

Health Spending ◽

Policy Implications

Background: Recently, agricultural productivity growth has experienced a sharp downward turn across the countries of Southeast Asia partly due to population aging, increasing pace of urbanization, and industrialization. Objective: To provide empirical evidence to the elasticity of prevailing health spending as a proxy of human capital stock on agricultural productivity growth in Southeast Asia. Methods: This study analyses data obtained from the World Development Indicators for 2000-2016 using panel data regression models. Results: The empirical evidence suggests that prevailing health expenditure, though statistically significant, exerts a strong positive effect on agricultural productivity growth. Therefore, a unit rise in prevailing health spending relative to GDP would increase agricultural productivity growth by 28% across countries of Southeast Asia, all else constant. Conclusion: The trend of rapid agricultural productivity declines in Southeast Asia could be altered by augmenting investment to the prevailing health spending as an indicator of human capital stock. Policy implications: The governments of Southeast Asia should increase investment in prevailing health spending relative to GDP, to stimulate more growth in agricultural productivity, greatly improved human capital stock, and eventually increase economic growth.

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