Showing papers in "Australian Journal of International Affairs in 1977"
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TL;DR: In this paper, Japan's economy: “Western” perspectives are discussed. But they do not consider the impact of trade barriers on the Japanese economy, and they focus on the trade imbalance.
Abstract: (1977). Japan's economy: “Western” perspectives. Australian Outlook: Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 453-478.
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TL;DR: Western attitudes should be balanced by restructuring world trade and constructing relationships which would hasten economic development, and Western enthusiasm for fertility control has been met with suspicion in many devleoping areas.
Abstract: Massive population growth is an accepted fact in developing countries at a time when developed Western countries i.e. the U.S. have become increasingly disenchanted with foreign aid. The gap between the very rich and very poor becomes wider and sharper. Most people live either in countries where the per capita income is below $320 or above $1280. Lowering fertility rates would be favorable to economic conditions in the long run but with little short-run effect population control is not a high priority government activity. The theme of the 1974 Bucharest Conference was that if development were encouraged fertility would take care of itself. Programs which directly influence fertility rates are needed to improve development. Family planning programs are low cost compared to other development policies and they improve maternal and child health. Women cannot be educated or employed unless they have the freedom of choice not to have children or when to have children. Western enthusiasm for fertility control has been met with suspicion in many devleoping areas. Western attitudes should be balanced by restructuring world trade and constructing relationships which would hasten economic development.
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TL;DR: In this article, a critical examination of the contribution of the occupation authorities towards raising the status of women in Japan is presented, focusing on women in post-war Japan and the role of men in this process.
Abstract: (1977). The status of women in post‐war Japan: A critical examination of the contribution of the occupation authorities towards raising the status of women in Japan. Australian Outlook: Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 439-452.
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TL;DR: The South-East Asia has on the whole been an area of relatively low Soviet political and economic influence throughout the Soviet Union’s existence as discussed by the authors, and the reasons for this are a study in themselves: they include the area's remoteness; control of access to it until after World War II by the colonial powers or, briefly, by a hostile Japan, Stalin's indifference to the revolutionary potential of colonial territories and refusal to believe that their newly gained independence was more than nominal.
Abstract: South-East Asia has on the whole been an area of relatively low Soviet political and economic influence throughout the Soviet Union’s existence. The reasons for this are a study in themselves: they include the area’s remoteness; control of access to it until after World War II by the colonial powers or, briefly, by a hostile Japan, Stalin’s indifference to the revolutionary potential of colonial territories and, in his last years, refusal to believe that their newly gained independence was more than nominal. Stalin’s attitude in turn stifled any real study of the area, and some Soviet actions towards it during his rule can be attributed only to plain ignorance. An example is Musso, an Indonesian Communist who had been living in the Soviet Union since 1928, and who was sent back to Indonesia in August 1948. He promptly engineered an abortive takeover of the nationalist movement at Madiun in September, as a result of which fifty-two out of fifty-eight Communist Party leaders were executed, and the Party was never again trusted near the levers of power. Revolts during the same period in Burma, Malaysia and the Philippines, apparently part of a planned assualt called for by Andrey Zhdanov at the opening meeting of the Cominform1 in September 1947, were in fact uncoordinated individual insurrections, which received no material Soviet support and were all unsuccessful.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the role of ideology and nation-building in Papua New Guinea's development, and discuss the challenges faced by the country in the process of building it.
Abstract: (1977). Ideology and nation‐building in Papua New Guinea. Australian Outlook: Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 308-318.
TL;DR: Macapagal and Manglapus as mentioned in this paper as mentioned in this paper described the political situation in the Philippines during the dictatorship of Ferdinand Ferdinand Ferdinand and Isabela Maracañas, 1976-1992.
Abstract: DEMOCRACY IN THE PHILIPPINES. Diosdado Macapagal. (Cusipag, Ontario, 1976) $A4.00 soft cover. PHILIPPINES: THE SILENCED DEMOCRACY. Raul S. Manglapus. (Orbis, N.Y., 1976) $A7.50 hard cover. THE CONJUGAL DICTATORSHIP OF FERDINAND AND IMELDA MARCOS. Primitivo Mijares. (Union Square, San Francisco, 1976) $A10.00 hard cover.
TL;DR: Barriers to contact and understanding between Australia and Japan are discussed in this paper, where the authors present a survey of the barriers to contact between the two countries, focusing on the following:
Abstract: (1977). Barriers to contact and understanding between Australia and Japan. Australian Outlook: Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 392-405.