De La Salle University - Manila

Asia Pacific Social Science Review

December 2007 Issue

Exploring Colonial Boundaries: An Examination of the Kartini-Zeehandelaar Correspondence Michael Hawkins

The Making of Heroes: A Grounded Theory on Student Development
Maria Aurora C. Bernardo

Clarifying the Link Between Social Capital and MSME Innovation Performance: The Role of Absorptive Capacity
Banjo Roxas

RESEARCH NOTES

Philippine-Malaysia Dispute over Sabah: A Bibliographic Survey
Erwin S. Fernandez

Lesson Drawing: The Congruence of Policy Transfer and Benchmarking
Khairiah Salwa Mokhtar and Mahmod Sabri Haron

Determinants of Economic Dependency on Garbage: The Case of Payatas, Philippines
Glenn L. Sia Su

Book Review

Wang Gungwu, ed. 2005. Nation-Building: Five Southeast Asian Histories. History of Nation-Building Series. Singapore: ISEAS
Rommel A. Curaming

June 2007 Issue

Japan and South Asia: Toward a Strengthened Economic Cooperation
Monir Hossain Moni

An Institutional View of Local Entrepreneurial Climate 27
Hernan Roxas, Val Lindsay, Nicholas Ashill and Antong Victorio

Reflexive Textuality: Researcher as Fractured Context 45
Dennis S. Erasga

At Home in the Cordillera Wilds: Colonial Domesticity in the Letters 59
of Maud Huntley Jenks, 1901-1903
Dinah Roma-Sianturi

The Role of Men in Family Planning in the Philippines: An Assessment 75
Sam Clark, Jr., Jonathan Flavier, Pilar Jimenez, Romeo Lee and Harris Solomon

BOOK/MONOGRAPH FEATURE

Men’s Involvement in Reproductive Health: An Islamic Perspective 97
Hamim Ilyas, Sekar Ayu Ariyani and Rachmad Hidayat

December 2006

Old Wine in New Bottles: Are Free Trade Agreements the New Protectionism?
CRAIG FREEDMAN
Associate Professor, Economics Department, Macquarie University
craig.freedman@efs.mq.edu.au
Poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States
Porfirio Diaz, Mexican Dictator, 1876-1880 and 1884-1911

Christian Compassion and Solidarity within Capitalist Contexts
FERDINAND D. DAGMANG
Associate Professor, Theology and Religious Education Department
De La Salle University-Manila, Philippines
dagmangf@dlsu.edu.ph

Cities in Globalization
JOSEFINA V. CABIGON
Professor, Population Institute,College of Social Sciences and Philosophy
University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines
josefinavcabigon@yahoo.com

E-Government in Singapore A SWOT and PEST Analysis
HUONG HA
Department of Management, Monash University, Australia
Huong.Ha@BusEco.monash.edu.au
KEN COGHILL
Department of Management, Monash University, Australia
Ken.Coghill@BusEco.monash.edu.au

Assessing the Expanded Role of the Armed Forces of the Philippines in Nation-Building
DENCIO S. ACOP
Colonel, Intelligence Service Armed Forces of the Philippines
Dencio.S.Acop@fluor.com
Traditionally, the formal purpose of the Armed Forces is to act against foreign enemies, but in reality they have other and varied functions The Armed Forces have a critical nation-building function. - Former President Fidel V. Ramos, 1993

RESEARCH NOTES # 6
Sex Preferences and Fertility Trends in South Korea
ANDERSON V. VILLA, M.A.
Advocacy Officer, Kaugmaon Center for Children.s Concerns
Foundation, Inc., Program Assistant for TSAP-FP-AED-USAID Project
Davao City, Philippines
10696237@dlsu.edu.ph