The exercise of modelling the risk and volatility of corporate bonds is undertaken through credit spreads analysis, a practice normally used in bond pricing and risk management. Despite the rapid growth of the Malaysian bond market, very few studies on the behaviour of credit spreads, and whether its volatility is influenced by external shocks have

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The level of inequity in health status and access to basic health care interventions remain high in Malawi (Zere, et al 2007). However, the people of Malawi want the health care service of the country to be efficient, effective and equitable (Kaisi, 2013). This paper examines the health care system and in particular how health care services are bei

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It is universally acknowledged that nationalism is the most deeply ingrained political ideology in the modern imagination. It is as Benedict Anderson suggests, "the most universally legitimate value in the political life of our time." Dipesh Chakrabarty is of the view that European imperialism and Third World nationalism have together achie

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Provides an overview of the contents in the issue and sums up the arguments in the articles.ASIATIC, VOLUME 9, NUMBER 1, JUNE 2015 Asiatic , Vol. 9, No. 1, June 2015 1 Editor’s Column This issue of Asiatic has seven sections. The first section is devoted to Syd Harrex (1935 -2015), a prominent Australian poet and pioneer in New Literature s studi

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To explain the importance of research and publication in the academia, and to outline the ways of writing scholarly articles and getting them published in Scopus or ISI indexed journals. Also to elaborate on why and how single author papers at important in the humanities and the social sciences.INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA KULLIYYAH OF