Malaysia

REPORT

Security Issues Facing the Tri-Border Area Between the Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia — May 23, 2012

The area between the Philippines, Malaysia, and Indonesia is a key hub of terrorist and related criminal activity in Southeast Asia. The Coast Watch System was designed to improve maritime domain awareness in the region but has some issues to overcome.

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Survey Data Provide Insights into Malaysian Family Life — Sep 17, 2010

The Malaysian Family Life Surveys were conducted in 1976-1977 and 1988-1989. The surveys collected detailed current and retrospective information on family structure, fertility, economic status, education, and more from a partially-overlapping sample of more than 4,000 individuals and households.

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COMMENTARY

Asia's Nonproliferation Laggards: China, India, Pakistan, Indonesia and Malaysia — Feb 8, 2009

The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction ranks as one of the biggest challenges facing the Obama administration. Luckily, Mr. Obama has a tool to combat this threat, in the form of the Proliferation Security Initiative.... The trick now will be to convince key Asian countries to participate, writes Charles Wolf Jr.

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Enhancement by Enlargement: The Proliferation Security Initiative — Dec 21, 2008

The Proliferation Security Initiative consists of 91 countries seeking to limit the spread of weapons of mass destruction between states or non-state actors that would thereby pose a serious threat to global or regional security. This report assesses the perspectives of the five "hold-out" nations and how to possibly gain their affiliation.

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The Malay-Muslim Insurgency in Southern Thailand -- Understanding the Conflict's Evolving Dynamic: RAND Counterinsurgency Study -- Paper 5 — May 11, 2008

Current unrest in the Malay-Muslim provinces of southern Thailand has captured growing national, regional, and international attention due to the heightened tempo and scale of rebel attacks, the increasingly jihadist undertone that has come to characterize insurgent actions, and the central government's often brutal handling of the situation on the ground. This paper assesses the current situation and its probable direction.

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JOURNAL ARTICLE

Reliability of Reasons for Early Termination of Breastfeeding: Application of a Bivariate Probability Model with Sample Selection to Data from Surveys in Malaysia in 1976-77 and 1988-89 — Dec 31, 2005

This study investigates, for a sample of 1,327 births, the reliability with which women in Peninsular Malaysia recalled, at intervals 12 years apart, reasons for not initiating or for stopping breastfeeding less than 3 months after a birth.

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JOURNAL ARTICLE

The Impact of Wives' Earnings on Earnings Inequality Among Married-couple Households in Malaysia — May 12, 2005

Analyze the effects of wives' earnings on household earnings' inequality in Peninsular Malaysia in 1976 and 1988. We find that wives' earnings helped equalize the distribution of household earnings in Malaysia, both at the two points in time and over time.

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Ethnicity and Fertility Differentials in Peninsular Malaysia: Do Policies Matter? — Dec 31, 2003

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Correlates of Short Interbirth Intervals in Peninsula Malaysia: Their Pathways of Influence Through Breastfeeding and Contraceptive Use — Dec 31, 2003

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How Well Do Desired Fertility Measures for Wives and Husbands Predict Subsequent Fertility? Evidence From Malaysia — Dec 31, 2002

Using data from the First and Second Malaysian Family Life Surveys, this report examines how well a woman's responses to two fertility-preference questions predict that woman's subsequent fertility.

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The Impact of Wives' Earnings on Earnings Inequality among Married-Couple Households in Malaysia — Dec 31, 2001

Using data from the First and Second Malaysian Family Life Surveys, the authors analyze the effects of wives' earnings on household earnings inequality in Malaysia in 1976 and 1988.

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RESEARCH BRIEF

The Dangers of Smoke Haze: Mortality in Malaysia from Indonesian Forest Fires — Dec 31, 2001

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JOURNAL ARTICLE

Forest Fires, Air Pollution, and Mortality in Southeast Asia — Dec 31, 2001

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Parent-Child Coresidence and Quasi-Coresidence in Penisular Malaysia — Dec 31, 1999

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Economic and Cultural Influences on the Decision to Leave Home in Peninsular Malaysia — Dec 31, 1996

Using retrospective data from the Second Malaysian Family Life Survey, the authors estimate hazard models of nestleaving in Peninsular Malaysia.

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Motives for Intergenerational Transfers: Evidence from Malaysia — Dec 31, 1996

In this paper the authors discuss a number of hypotheses about motives for intergenerational transfers within the family.

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How do parents and children help one another? : socioeconomic determinants of intergenerational transfers in Peninsular Malaysia — Dec 31, 1996

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Mother-child coresidence and quasi-coresidence in Peninsular Malaysia — Dec 31, 1996

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Ethnic differences in parents' coresidence with adult children in Peninsular Malaysia — Dec 31, 1996

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Child mortality in Malaysia : ethnic differences and the recent decline — Dec 31, 1995

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