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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (3): 834–836.
Published: 01 August 2014
.... Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2014 2014 Small Town Capitalism in Western India: Artisans, Merchants and the Making of the Informal Economy, 1870–1960 . By Douglas E. Haynes . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2012 . $103.00 (cloth); $82.00 (e-book). ...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1989) 48 (4): 849–850.
Published: 01 November 1989
...Michael Smitka Information, Incentives, and Bargaining in the Japanese Economy . By Masahiko Aoki . New York : Cambridge University Press , 1988 . xii, 320 pp. $39.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 849 ward, housing patterns...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (4): 1369–1372.
Published: 01 November 2002
...Kathryn Ibata-Arens Information, Corporate Governance, and Institutional Diversity: Competitiveness in Japan, the USA, and the Transitional Economies . By Masahiko Aoki . translated By Stacey Jehlik . Oxford and New York : Oxford University Press , 2000 . xiii, 186 pp. $29.95...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (2): 327–333.
Published: 01 May 2024
... and Myanmar. Scholars have noted how various forms of Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, and popular Chinese religions have been diffused into the secular spaces of Hong Kong's governing state structures, formal and informal economies, and ad hoc protest organizations in civil society. Recent work has also...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (2): 337–361.
Published: 01 May 2021
... influences from the adjacent British Crown colony of Hong Kong. To create an enclave of exception to socialism, Communist cadres in Bao'an promoted individualized, duty-free cross-border trade and informal foreign investment schemes as early as 1961. Although beholden to the inward-looking planned economy...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1970) 29 (3): 515–537.
Published: 01 May 1970
... as it is concentrated on the agricultural sector alone. Besides, much has changed in both economies since 1958, and we take into account some information relating to this later period (as well as new information on the earlier period). More recendy, K. N. Raj [India, Pakistan and China: Economic Growth and Outlook...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1963) 22 (3): 293–303.
Published: 01 May 1963
... in that land and its culture has called attention to the meagerness of information concerning details of Tibetan daily life, economy, and politics. In a series of interviews widi members of the Sakya ruling house undertaken by the authors, it has been possible to secure considerable data concerning...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (2): 357–371.
Published: 01 May 2011
..., the emergence of an underground market economy, and the erosion of the state's barriers to information from the outside world, the regime has lost its legitimacy in the eyes of many ordinary North Koreans. This does not mean that the collapse of the North Korean regime is imminent. “Cognitive dissonance...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (3): 609–620.
Published: 01 August 2020
... citizenship democracy informal economy Narendra Modi The statement that I have taken as the title of this essay was made by Yamini Aiyar, the president and chief executive officer of the internationally highly regarded Centre for Policy Research in Delhi. Aiyar argued in the same newspaper article...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2005) 64 (4): 1071–1073.
Published: 01 November 2005
... investment and strictly controlled, state-narrated versions of both national unity and local diversity marginalized small-scale and individual entrepreneurs operating in the informal economy and created a two-tiered tourism economy. These themes are carefully explained throughout this book. Although...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (4): 695–698.
Published: 01 November 2023
... transformation in kinship has led to legal disputes over inheritance and property division. 3 He also sketches out, from the perspective of the bereaved as consumers and kin, how the informal economy of death works within the framework of the state's control of death. In chapter 6, Kipnis then provides...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (1): 3–21.
Published: 01 February 2022
... inspiration from him as they proceeded with the tasks at hand. The small-scale craft, fabrication, and repair shops that we have visited in Assam, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, and West Bengal—and which make up part of India's “informal economy”—invariably hosted the deity in portrait form...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (1): 193–195.
Published: 01 February 2012
... of “voice” in parliaments, but more often the rulers devised new techniques for greater extraction. Chinese subjects used the “exit” option, including flight to frontiers or to the informal economy, to limit fiscal demands. Since wars were less frequent, the pressure to raise revenue was also less...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (4): 905.
Published: 01 November 1988
..." informal economy in a small town provides the detail of individual histories and specific cases. The other studies of the "realities of Korean women," although often interesting and informative, are prone to superficial generalities. Chung Sei-wha examines the socialization process, concluding...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (4): 1142–1144.
Published: 01 November 2014
... specialized skills that are tailored to the demands of the new information economy, but does not interrogate further how this discourse of the new economy may have justified the shift to differentiated education. In short, exploring possible explanations for the “troubling turn” in Japan and Korea's education...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (2): 470–472.
Published: 01 May 2021
... of the legal status of traders and the yartsa trade as informal economy and as “ethnic glue” in the sense of uniting ethnicities with often strained relationships—namely, Goloks, Muslims, and Han Chinese—in the pursuit of a common goal (i.e., profitable trading transactions). Chapter 5 examines how prices...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (3): 649–672.
Published: 01 August 2016
... , and Lauren Benton . 1989 . The Informal Economy: Studies in Advanced and Less Developed Countries . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press . Portes Alejandro , and William Haller...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (4): 993–994.
Published: 01 November 2020
... incorporate public spaces into private use, yet their creative making of an informal economy further reinforces the image of chaos, uncivility, and social disorganization that surrounds them. Not all of the fifty migrant households that Ling has carefully studied over the past decade are pitifully poor...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (2): 456–458.
Published: 01 May 2021
... been wise to analyze these companies less as offering innovative new solutions that have yet to succeed, and more as representing only the latest incarnation of state-entrepreneurial attempts to replace or regulate the massive informal economy of waste collecting and trading, a process that dates back...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (1): 280–282.
Published: 01 February 2014
...,” opens with Gregory Green's cautiously optimistic chapter on the Lao information economy. Despite woeful shortages in education, libraries, and local book publishing, the erstwhile popularity of radio and gradual improvements in publishing, Internet access, and local television promise a richer variety...
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