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July 10, 2013

[SSJ: 8161] Invitation to a seminar on July 12 (Fri)

From: Kuniaki Nemoto
Date: 2013/07/10

Here's an invitation to our policy seminar (details
below) on July 12.
Sorry for the very short notice; thanks very much!

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NEMOTO, Kuniaki (Ph.D)
Research Fellow / Assistant Professor
Organization for Japan-US Studies, Waseda University http://sites.google.com/site/knemoto1978/


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Waseda University Organization for Japan-US Studies
(WOJUSS) Policy Seminar (July 12)

"Economic Analysis of Affirmative Action Policies in Malaysia and South
Africa:
Implications for the United States"
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Waseda University Organization for Japan-US Studies
(WOJUSS) is holding a policy Seminar.

Please see the details below.

[Title]
"Economic Analysis of Affirmative Action Policies in Malaysia and South
Africa:
Implications for the United States"

[Date/Time] 13:00-14:30, July 12 (Fri)

[Place] Room 302, Okuma Memorial Tower (Bldg.#26), Waseda Campus
MAP: http://www.waseda.jp/eng/campus/map.html

[Speaker] Hwok-Aun Lee
Senior Lecturer, Department of Development Studies,
Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya, Malaysia

(Short Biography)
Lee Hwok Aun is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Development Studies, University of Malaya.
He obtained his doctorate from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and has published works on inequality, social policy, labour, and affirmative action, including "Industrial Policy and Inter-ethnic Income Distribution" in Industrial Policy in Malaysia (Singapore University Press, 2007), "Affirmative Action and Ethnic Inequality" in Malaysian
Economy: Unfolding
Growth and Social Change
(Oxford University Press, 2011) and "Affirmative Action in Malaysia:
Education and Employment
Outcomes since the 1990s", Journal of Contemporary Asia (2012).


[Commentator]
Motoki Watabe
Associate Professor, WOJUSS, Waseda University

[Moderator]
Masahiko Gemma
Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, Waseda University

[Language] English

(Registration)
http://www.kikou.waseda.ac.jp/wojuss/eng/event/event.ph
p?id=6

Approved by ssjmod at 10:43 AM