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Rohingyas – the forgotten people of Burma turning up on Thailand´s paradise beaches
Martin Gemzell,
Asia Program Manager
Olof Palme International Center
The End is Near, But Has it really Finished?
President Rajapakse expressed in his Independence Day address to the nation that his was confident that the days of the LTTE were numbered and very few indeed. Kehelia Rambukawella in an interview with Asian Tribute, the internet based paper, a few days ago that it was of no importance to the government of Sri Lanka whether the LTTE supremo Prabhakaran was dead or alive.
Read moreThe decentralisation process in Indonesia and its impact on the agricultural sector / by Tobias Axelsson
The thesis “Peasants and policymakers : agricultural transformation in Java under Suharto” shows that Indonesia commenced a transformation process but did not see it through, resulting in an economy more investment-driven than agriculturally-led. Inspired by the East Asian model, the thesis focuses on three core areas within the agricultural transformation process. Firstly, yields and labour productivity whereby it is shown that the principal source of productivity growth was through land augmenting policies.
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