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What is a hypothesis? Based on developing and/or developed Asian countries, generate any one hypothesis relevant to the Asian political economy (IPE). Discuss how you can ’empirically’ test the hypothesis ‘quantitatively’ (quantitative approach) and/or ‘qualitatively’ (qualitative approach). What do you think should be the main stages of the ‘scientific’ research process in the study of the Asian/International Political Economy?