Kwan Kwok Leung - Development in Southeast Asia: Review and Prospects

First published 2002 by Ashgate Publishing

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Duncan Campbell is Chief of the World Employment Report Team in the Employment Strategy Department of the International Labour Organization. He has an A.B. from Bowdoin College, and holds a M.A., a M.B.A., and a Ph.D. in Applied Economics and Managerial Science from the University of Pennsylvania. He joined the ILO in 1990 from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania where he had been a member of the Management Department faculty and Associate Director of the Center for Human Resources. At the ILO, he began his career with the International Institute for Labour Studies programme on new industrial organization where his work concentrated on the effects of rising economic openness and the cross-border organisation of production and, later, on the economics of labour standards. In 1994, he joined the team preparing the ILOs first World Employment Report 1995. Thereafter, he was a member of the team preparing the World Labour Report 1997-1998. He spent three years with the ILOs East Asia Multidisciplinary Team in Bangkok, where he was Senior Industrial Relations Specialist, working with ILO constituents largely in Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, China, and Malaysia. He returned to headquarters in 2000 to co-ordinate the thematic section on decent work and the information society for World Employment Report 2001.

David Chan is currently the Programme Leader of the East and Southeast Asian Studies and Associate Professor at the Department of Applied Social Studies, City University of Hong Kong. He is also an active member of the Comparative Education Policy Research Unit at the Department of Public and Social Administration, City University of Hong Kong. He received his master degree from Stanford University and his Ph.D. from the University of Nottingham. His main research interests focus on comparative education policies and reforms in East and Southeast Asian countries, and has contributed many articles in both international and regional journals, such as