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Shankaran Nambiar is Senior Research Fellow and Head of Research and Senior Research Fellow at the Malaysian Institute of Economic Research, is also a distinguished member of the academic advisory council at the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA). As Visiting Fellow at the Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University, Nambiar brings a wealth of expertise to his research role. Nambiar's international engagements include being a visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund and fellowships at the ASEAN Studies Center, Universitas Gadjah Mada...

Internationalised higher education literature draws attention to the tension between the economic returns of recruiting overseas students and the personal, social and cultural possibilities offered. This paper advances the idea that fostering cosmopolitan values might be an educational focus for internationalisation. However, it appears that the creation of higher education learning environments which promote such values, offering opportunities for students to become more interculturally aware is yet to be achieved. Drawing on the ‘capability approach’ of Amartya Senand Martha Nussbaum, an...

The Capability Approach, a concept introduced in our previous column (“The quest for well-being in turbulent times,” Jan. 19), centers on well-being: of living a life of value. As a powerful framework used to guide and measure the development and impact of public policy, its force is focused on quality of life and the ability […]

Several pieces of data and statistics will be thrown around to prove an unprovable hypothesis as is the nature of our heavily and increasingly less informed politics despite mountains of statistics and data at the disposal of the political landscape from Stats SA.

Introduction: Economic evaluation currently focuses almost exclusively on the maximization of health, using the Quality-Adjusted Life-Year (QALY) framework with instruments such as the EQ-5D, with a limited number of health-focused dimensions providing the assessment of health benefit. This evaluative framework is likely to be insufficient for setting priorities in dementia care because of its exclusive concern with health. Data are also often collected from the perspective of a proxy, limiting the voice of those living with dementia in decision-making. This protocol describes a research proje...