...David Gilmartin The Punjab Peasant in Prosperity and Debt . By Malcolm Lyall Darling . With a new Introduction by Clive J. Dewey. Rpt. Columbia, Mo. : South Asia Books , 1978 . xxxii, 264 pp. Maps, List of Authorities, Index. $14 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

... of assistance to marginalized or dependent populations into a technology used to identify and support productive citizens. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010 2010 South Koreans in the Debt Crisis: The Creation of a Neoliberal Welfare Society . By Jesook Song . Durham, N.C...

...John Creighton Campbell Shrinking Population Economics: Lessons from Japan . By Akihito Matsutani . Tokyo : International House of Japan , 2006 . xiv , 200 pp. ¥1429 (paper). Tackling Japan's Fiscal Challenges: Strategies to Cope with High Public Debt and Population Ageing...

...Erik Harms Beyond Debt: Islamic Experiments in Global Finance . By Daromir Rudnyckyj . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2018 . viii, 263 pp. ISBN: 9780226552088 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019  2019 Daromir Rudnyckyj's Beyond Debt...

...Anne Hardgrove Microfinance and Its Discontents: Women in Debt in Bangladesh . By Lamia Karim . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2011 . xxxiii, 255 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2013 2013 Received wisdom...

...Laura Ha Reizman The Gift of Freedom: War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages . By Mimi Thi Nguyen . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2012 . xvi, 276 pp. $84.95 (cloth); $23.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2014  2014 What does it mean...

...Stanley Murashige Elegant Debts: The Social Art of Wen Zhengming, 1470–1559 . By Craig Clunas . Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 2004 . 223 pp. $55.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 B O O K R E V I E W S C H I N A 713 Two other excellent...

... relied on fiscal reform and deficit financing to finance their programs of reform and economic development. Taiwan's fiscal resources were limited, but the administration managed to secure the home government's underwriting of a large debt issue. The land tax reform, the introduction of new excise taxes...

... of China, until now there had been no serious effort by a respected scholar to set forth a similar work for Vietnam. In short, such a work is long, long overdue, and the field is deeply in Taylor's debt for having tackled such a daunting project. A History of the Vietnamese . By Keith W. Taylor...

... individually as scholars, but none of us really works or writes alone. We are sustained by our links, in print and in person, with generations of fellow scholars. That vital nexus is greatly enhanced through our common enterprise in the Association, and we owe it and its dedicated staff a profound debt...

... credit had little to do with production. Most peasants used rural credit for consumption purposes, which had destructive effects on agricultural production. Rural credit, in these views, is a siphon that draws resources out of the rural sector, locks peasants into a vicious cycle of debt, creates rural...

... Southeast Asia during the depression. The second section examines a number of factors—the alleged coercive power of the colonial state to secure its tax revenues and of rural capitalists to enforce debt and rent payments during a period of severe deflation—which would have had a major direct influence...

.... No such sanctions are found in the case under consideration here. 3 See Darling's Malcolm The Punjab Peasant in Prosperity and Debt , 4th ed. ( London : Oxford Univ. Press , 1947 ) [hereafter PP ] and Rusticus Loquitor ( London : Oxford Univ. Press , 1929 ) . 2...

... that even during this relatively favorable period, materials must be used with caution. 4 FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY (The fundamental problem of Nanking expenditures was the inability of the Ministry of Finance to limit military and debt service expenditures to a level consistent with progressive fiscal policy...

... the detailed coverage of the proceedings at the Round Table Conference (RTC) at The Hague. As weeks went by, it became obvious that little progress was made on such critical issues as the nature of the NetherlandsIndonesian Union, the debt issue, or the contested status of West New Guinea. The debt issue...

... many surprising features. At the height of the 1989 financial bubble, which was the greatest yet of its type, Japanese banks looked set to dominate international finance. That position turned out to be built on a mountain of bad debt that ultimately may have reached ¥200 trillion (or roughly US$2...

... and December 31, 1949. The final volume continues the detailed coverage of the proceedings at the Round Table Conference (RTC) at The Hague. As weeks went by, it became obvious that little progress was made on such critical issues as the nature of the NetherlandsIndonesian Union, the debt issue...

... continued to "evergreen," or roll over, the chaebol's outstanding debt. When favorable circumstances did not materialize, the needed increase in evergreening by the banks was larger than their balance sheets could tolerate. The authors argue that the chaebol's low profitability, high leverage, and economic...

... and deal with the remaining debts upon their return to Vietnam. Arguably, this may be the most valuable part of the book. It shows that, while abroad, most of the migrant workers accumulate new skills and experiences, allowing them to improve their future lives. In the case of the Vietnamese and Vietnamese...

... management: economic stabilization in the late 1960s, the massive Pertamina debt default of 1975, the "Dutch Disease" problem created by high world oil prices in 1974 81, and the need to adjust to declining oil prices in the 1980s. This is BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 273 followed by a chapter that weighs...