Showing papers in "Asian Journal of Social Science in 1980"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate the changes in the female labour force and find that the pool of manpower available in a country for the production of goods and services is determined by a variety of demographic, social and economic factors such as race composition of the population, the degree of urbanization, the proportion of married women and traditional attitudes towards working women and working children.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the rural development efforts of Malaysia, especially some of the issues and problems encountered by some of it's rural development programmes, including redistribution of land; Abolition of rents and tenant arrangements; Landholding reform; Intensification of peasant agriculture; Family farms; Cooperatives; and Collective farms, etc.

TL;DR: China has taken a great social leap forward in promoting the 1 child family and the call for population education and family planning information dissemination has been established in public schools.

TL;DR: Hong Kong is a case in point as discussed by the authors where crime trends in crime in Hong Kong and social and economic forces might lie back of these trends, and crime in Asia has received somewhat less than its fair share of attention.