Showing papers in "Journal of Contemporary Asia in 1992"
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TL;DR: The soldier comes to another front now, the environmental front as discussed by the authors, without environmental recovery, Vietnam cannot have economic recovery. (Vo Nguyen Giap, 2017)... )
Abstract: The soldier comes to another front now, the environmental front…. without environmental recovery, Vietnam cannot have economic recovery. (Vo Nguyen Giap)
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the process of rural-urban migration of landless rural families in South Asia using field data from Dattabad slum in Calcutta and from Notuk village in Midnapur District, West Bengal, India, and from Ekdala and South Rampur villages in Bangladesh.
Abstract: [Analyses the process of rural-urban migration of landless rural families in South Asia using field data from Dattabad slum in Calcutta and from Notuk village in Midnapur District, West Bengal, India, and from Ekdala and South Rampur villages in Bangladesh. Results reveal that diminishing access to non-market goods and lack of employment of females caused a significant fall in family income which forced these rural families to migrate to Dattabad slum. Their migration-decision was linked to the onset of poverty and lack of economic security for them. This suggests the importance of a “push-factor” in their migration-decision. While all family members migrated together and all hoped to find some employment in Calcutta, only female members in all families were employed. This was in unskilled jobs. Males were frequently unemployed and were in a less satisfactory economic situation than was anticipated prior to migration].
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TL;DR: In this paper, the grameen bank and the changing patron-client relationship in Bangladesh are discussed, focusing on the changing client-client relationships in the context of grameens.
Abstract: (1992). The grameen bank and the changing patron-client relationship in Bangladesh. Journal of Contemporary Asia: Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 303-321.
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TL;DR: In this paper, Redfield argued that the urban and the peasant are, in certain things, one society, and the urbanite knows it, and it does not follow that the peasant looks upward to the city man in everything.
Abstract: Peasants and urbanites are, in certain things, one society, and the peasant knows it. It does not follow that the peasant looks upward to the city man in everything. (Redfield, 1953: 49)
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TL;DR: Geertz as discussed by the authors described the process of social change in the Third World viewed from a culturological or interpretative rather than a Marxist or partisan viewpoint, where feminists and Marxists find oppression, symbolists find meaning.
Abstract: Of the many foreign social scientists who have carried out fieldwork in Indonesia since the second world war, few have gone on to reach the eminence of Professor Clifford Geertz. His books, written largely on the basis of his work in Java and Bali in the 1950's, have become classics (Editorial, Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies 1988, p. 31). …dual organization …plural economy …loosely structured social system …agricultural involution …have found wide acceptance … and have become standard concepts of textbook social science (Evers, 1980, p. 2). Although Geertz uses the Java case as his only example, the concept has wider implications and ‘involution’ is an expected response in other cases developing in other areas. (Pirie, 1984, p. 134) …processes of social change in the Third World viewed from a culturological or interpretative rather than a Marxist or partisan viewpoint (Social Science Encyclopedia, 1985, p. 328). Where feminists and Marxists find oppression, symbolists find meaning (Keesing, cited...
TL;DR: In this article, women in the Philippines garments exports industry were surveyed. But the focus was on women's empowerment, and not women's economic empowerment in the garment export industry, and they focused on women empowerment.
Abstract: (1992). Women in the Philippines garments exports industry. Journal of Contemporary Asia: Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 471-489.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the experience of Singapore under Lee Kuan Yew, and special attention is devoted to the experience under Lee and his regime, focusing on the systematic repression of unruly students, trade unionists, the free press, and other democratic processes.
Abstract: The apologetic literature on capitalist development has been quite unrelenting in its advocacy of free markets to produce “the right conditions” for economic growth. Invariably, however, the only freedom preserved under so-called free-market policies is the economic freedom of international capital to sell, invest, and repatriate profit. Furthermore, “a favourable investment climate” is created only with the systematic repression of unruly students, trade unionists, the free press, and other democratic processes. Dubbed as a necessary precondition for industrialisation, and vindicated by outsiders in the West, many states in the Third World readily accede to the stern government that is necessary to implement these market-oriented policies. It is this issue that provides the focus of debate in this paper, and special attention is devoted to the experience of Singapore under Lee Kuan Yew.
TL;DR: The long-debated issue of whether large farms are more productive and efficient than small farms has important implications for agricultural development policy in developing and developed countries as discussed by the authors, and the known studies on land size, productivity, and economic efficiency in labor-intensive developing countries, particularly in Asia, and land-extensive developed countries, like North America and Australia, are analyzed to investigate their importance to economic development.
Abstract: The long-debated issue, whether large farms are more productive and efficient than small farms, has important implications for agricultural development policy in developing and developed countries. The known studies on land size, productivity, and economic efficiency in labor-intensive developing countries, particularly in Asia, and land-extensive developed countries, like North America and Australia, are analyzed to investigate their importance to economic development.
TL;DR: In this paper, De-industrialisation through colonial trade is discussed, and the authors propose a methodology for de-industrialization through trade, which is based on the concept of colonial trade.
Abstract: (1992). De-industrialisation through colonial trade. Journal of Contemporary Asia: Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 297-302.
TL;DR: In this article, the Prince souphanouvong: Revolutionary and Intellectual, 1992, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 94-103, is described as "a revolutionary and intellectual".
Abstract: (1992). Prince souphanouvong: Revolutionary and intellectual. Journal of Contemporary Asia: Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 94-103.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined how the demand for labor due to rapid economic growth in Taiwan has been met since 1965 and tried to answer the following questions: 1) Where did the labor supply come from? 2) Has all the potential labor supply been tapped and exhausted? 3) Is it possible for labor shortage and unutilized labor reserve to occur simultaneously?
Abstract: By 1965, Taiwan has changed from a labor surplus economy into a labor shortage economy. This article examines how rising demand for labor due to rapid economic growth in Taiwan has been met since 1965. This article attempts to answer 1) Where did the labor supply come from? 2) Has all of the potential labor supply been tapped and exhausted? 3) Is it possible for labor shortage and unutilized labor reserve to occur simultaneously? The authors hope that this study will lead to a better understanding of the limitation of the free market mechanism and help identify the proper public policies to enhance labor utilization.
TL;DR: This paper used three social science treatises to render an understanding of how people are repressed, and how, conversely, those people can attain restitution (that is, gain their freedom from their government).
Abstract: This article uses three social science treatises to render an understanding of how people are repressed, and how, conversely, those people can attain restitution (that is, gain their freedom from their government). The three works used to explore repression and restitution are Coleman's Power and the Structure of Society, Hirschman's Exit, Voice, and Loyalty, and Michels' Political Parties. Together these classics provide insight into the process by which governments repress citizens and powerful advice as to how people can, for example, use countervailing organizations to escape, or at least ameliorate, the repression. It is shown that power gravitates to “fictitious” actors. These actors are ruled by an oligarchy. The few people who make up that oligarchy subvert the goals of the organization and substitute the goal of the oligarchy's survival. For the oligarchy to survive, repression may be necessary. Repression, thus, is organizational and oligarchical. Restitution must be also. The examples ...
TL;DR: In this article, the sources of Neo-nationalism and resistance in Japan are discussed, and a discussion of the relationship between resistance and white supremacy is presented, with a focus on Japan.
Abstract: (1992). Sources of neo-nationalism and resistance in Japan. Journal of Contemporary Asia: Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 207-223.