The neoliberal paradigm of government is globalizing alongside economic globalization. In her study of the "graduated sovereignty" of "postdevelopmental states" in Southeast Asia, Aihwa Ong builds on the critical insights raised above. Ong points out that many Southeast Asian states have selectively adopted neoliberal values "for managing populations in relation to corporate requirements." Disciplinary apparatuses are employed to make individuals more productive, diligent, etc. At the same pursuant to the logic of market hyper-competitiveness, "the Asian tiger state makes different kinds of biopolitical investments in different subject populations, privileging one ethnicity over another, the male over the female, and the professional over the manual worker. Different sectors of the population are subjected to different technologies of regulation and nurturance, and in the process assigned different social fates." Different social fates also entail being subject to different gradations of sovereign power organized to meet corporate requirements. Ong writes,