What drives consumer demand for rice fragrance? Evidence from South and Southeast Asia

2020 ◽  
Vol 122 (11) ◽  
pp. 3473-3498 ◽  
Author(s):  
Subir Bairagi ◽  
Matty Demont ◽  
Marie Claire Custodio ◽  
Jhoanne Ynion
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Gender Equity ◽  
Consumer Preferences ◽  
Stated Preference ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Choice Data ◽  
Content Type ◽  
South And Southeast Asia ◽  
Asian Consumers

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to analyze geographic heterogeneity of consumer preferences for intrinsic quality attributes of rice in South and Southeast Asia and the drivers of demand for these attributes, with a particular focus on rice fragrance and the role of gender.Design/methodology/approachStated-preference surveys were conducted with 4,231 urban and rural consumers in 37 cities across seven countries (Bangladesh, India, Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam) during 2013–2014 and analyzed through a rank-ordered logistic regression with incomplete ranking choice data.FindingsPreferences for rice attributes are found to be significantly heterogeneous among consumers in South and Southeast Asia. Urban Thai consumers tend to prioritize appearance and cooking characteristics over taste and nutritional benefits, relative to all other surveyed consumers. In contrast with South Asian consumers, Southeast Asian consumers have largely adopted Thai preferences for rice texture and fragrance, a trend that was earlier coined “Jasminization.” We find that demand for rice fragrance is mainly driven by women, educated consumers, large families, families spending a lower share of their food expenditures on rice, and consumers in Southeast Asia (particularly the Philippines and Cambodia).Originality/valueLittle is known about geographic heterogeneity, drivers, and the role of gender in demand for rice fragrance. This paper fills these knowledge gaps. Our findings suggest that the more women are empowered in grocery decision-making, the more demand for aromatic rice is expected to rise. These insights can assist market-driven and gender-responsive rice breeding programs in simultaneously enhancing rice farmers' livelihoods and gender equity.

scholarly journals The Strength of Weak Ties: Role of Networks in Nepali Migration to South and Southeast Asia 1900-2000

1970 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-47
Author(s):  
Lopita Nath
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Weak Ties ◽  
South And Southeast Asia ◽  
Strength Of Weak Ties

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/bodhi.v4i1.5809Bodhi 2010 4(1): 18-47

Commentary

Transfers ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 108-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Hannam
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Special Section ◽  
Theoretical Literature ◽  
South And Southeast Asia ◽  
Cultural Diffusion ◽  
Human Actors ◽  
Transportation Technologies

In this brief commentary on the articles in this special section, I would like to relate them to more contemporary mobilities issues as well as the wider mobilities theoretical literature. In so doing, I seek to highlight and interrogate a key theme, namely Asian innovation in mobilities and processes of cultural diffusion. As the editors of the special section suggest, historically the introduction of new transportation technologies and their ensuing mobilities practices became symbols of modernity for much of South and Southeast Asia under colonialism. They also emphasize that such innovations were highly contested and thus they suggest that the mobility of mobilities is seldom a smooth process, but, rather, laden with negotiations and struggles over power. Furthermore, the editors highlight that Asia should not be represented as an imitator of Western mobility and modernity but rather seek to place innovation agency in Asian hands. The articles prompt me to ask a further question about the role of non-human actors in these processes: Is it more a question of placing innovation in the vehicles of mobility themselves?

Blowing the whistle on workplace corruption: the role of ethical leadership

2020 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 277-294
Author(s):  
Ma. Regina M. Hechanova ◽  
Jason O. Manaois
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Leadership ◽  
Indirect Effect ◽  
Power Distance ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Organizational Norms

Purpose The purpose of this study is to provide a structural model of the role of ethical leadership on intent to whistle blow workplace corruption using the theory of planned behaviors. Design/methodology/approach The study used a mixed method, sequential design. Interviews were conducted in the first phase to identify corrupt practices and validate the salience of the variables in the study. The second phase administered surveys to test the hypotheses of the study. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was done to analyze structural relationships among variables. Findings SEM results showed an adequately fit model, indicating ethical leadership predicting organizational norms and controls. It also found that ethical leadership has indirect effect toward employees’ attitude toward corruption through organizational norms and control. Furthermore, ethical leadership also has indirect effect on intent to whistle blow through organizational controls. Research limitations/implications This study was conducted in the Philippines, a high-power distance culture. In such a culture, the influence of leadership is crucial, as it dictates standard behaviors of members and the organization as a whole. Future research may wish to explore whether the findings would also apply in low-power distance cultures. Practical implications The finding suggests that ethical leadership is crucial in shaping organizational norms and controls, which in turn, influences employees’ attitude toward corruption and their intention to whistle blow. Originality/value The study contributes to corruption literature by providing empirical evidence of the structure model how the role of ethical leadership shapes organizational norms and controls that, in turn, influences employee attitude toward corruption and intent to whistle blow.

Wants, Wages, And Workers

2005 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
GREG BANKOFF
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Public Works ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Labor Shortage ◽  
Market Mechanisms ◽  
Work Relations

A need for workers posed a dilemma for the new U.S. administration in the Philippines anxious to demonstrate its progressive intentions and distance itself from the compulsion that had characterized public works during the previous regime. Instead, it turned to the market to �nd both an ideologically acceptable and a practically realizable solution. Commencing with an investigation of extrafamilial work relations during the Spanish period, this article traces the nature and extent of the labor shortage at the turn of the twentieth century. It then discusses the important role of unions before evaluating government policy in the light of subsequent events. In one sense, the American Philippines was the �rst truly modern state in Southeast Asia, infused by the logic of capitalism and informed by market mechanisms.

Efficiency of banks in Southeast Asia: Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (12) ◽  
pp. 2302-2312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shazida Jan Mohd Khan ◽  
Shamzaeffa Samsudin ◽  
Rabiul Islam
Keyword(s):  
Data Envelopment Analysis ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Data Envelopment ◽  
Bank Efficiency ◽  
Financial Reforms ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Cross Country

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to use the concept of meta-frontiers data envelopment analysis (DEA) to compare the technical efficiencies of banks in selected Southeast Asia countries in the periods of 1998-2012. Design/methodology/approach The authors evaluate bank efficiency in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines by means of DEA, and the authors employ a meta-frontiers approach to calculate efficiency scores in a cross-country setting. Findings The analysis shows that even there are some similarities in the process of financial reforms undertaken in the selected countries, the observed efficiency levels of banks vary substantially across the market. Originality/value It is crucial to take into consideration of different technologies in explaining the efficiency differences.

scholarly journals Do economic endeavors complement sustainability goals in the emerging economies of South and Southeast Asia?

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajesh Sharma ◽  
Avik Sinha ◽  
Pradeep Kautish
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Kuznets Curve ◽  
Trade Expansion ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Distributed Lag ◽  
South And Southeast Asia ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Nonrenewable Energy

PurposeIn the present study, the authors intended to investigate whether the economic growth drivers such as per capita income, financial development, nonrenewable energy solutions and trade expansion have invigorated the level of environmental pollution in the eight developing nations of South and Southeast Asia.Design/methodology/approachConsidering the possibility of the cross-sectional dependency, the authors employed relatively new econometric approaches, that is, the Westerlund cointegration test and cross-sectional augmented distributed lag mean estimation (CS-DL) for the period of 1990–2015.FindingsThe simulation results of the study confirmed an N-shaped environmental Kuznets curve, which raised a question on the existing economic policies in these nations. Further, the study reported that the improvements in the financial sector, nonrenewable energy consumption and trade expansion contributed to increasing the level of CO2 emissions in the long run.Originality/valueBased on the results, the authors intended to provide a unique policy framework because the present policies are generating a trade-off between economic and environmental goals. If the suggested framework is employed across sectors, the given countries may likely achieve the sustainable development goals by 2030.

Communism, Cold War and Commodity Chains: Southeast Asian Labor History in a Comparative and Transnational Perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 97 ◽  
pp. 159-179
Author(s):  
Ulbe Bosma
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Commodity Chains ◽  
Global Commodity Chains ◽  
Advanced Economies ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Second World

The geographical term “Southeast Asia” dates from the 1930s, and came to denote a topic for academic studies in the early days of the Cold War. As such, it includes Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Indochina, Thailand, Myanmar, Malaysia, Brunei, and the Philippines. Southeast Asia has become thoroughly incorporated in the global economy over the past 150 years; first, as a producer of commodities, and later, as a supplier of cheap garments and electronic components. Under Dutch colonialism and British hegemony—the latter established by the conquest of Burma and the imposition of free trade on Siam and the Philippines in the 1850s—Southeast Asia was turned into a key provider of commodities for the industrializing countries. During high colonialism, from 1870 to 1930, the region became increasingly intertwined, via Singapore as the central port and through the role of mainland Southeast Asia as the rice basket for the plantations of maritime Southeast Asia. After the Second World War, the region was the world's most violent frontier of containment for communist expansion. In recent decades, Southeast Asia has become integrated in global commodity chains as a producer of cheap industrial goods, often as a subcontractor for more advanced economies, such as those of Hong Kong, Korea, Taiwan, and later on, Southeast China.

Disaster Response in Southeast Asia: The ASEAN Agreement on Disaster Response and Emergency Management

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 116-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabrielle SIMM
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Emergency Management ◽  
International Law ◽  
Emergency Response ◽  
Disaster Response ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Cyclone Nargis

AbstractSoutheast Asia includes some of the states at greatest risk of disasters worldwide, and ASEAN has been at the forefront of using international law to attempt to co-operate in disaster risk reduction and response. The ASEAN Agreement on Disaster Management and Emergency Response (AADMER) is a regional treaty that has been hailed as among the world’s best practice: progressive, comprehensive, and, unusually for a disaster instrument, legally binding. This paper evaluates ASEAN’s responses to two mega-disasters: Cyclone Nargis that hit Myanmar in May 2008 and Super-typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda that hit the Philippines in November 2013. The paper aims further to investigate the role of non-state actors, such as civil society and the private sector, in institutionalizing and implementing AADMER.

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