Beginning in the late 1980s, as an aggressive attempt of the property right reform, China's township-village enterprises (TVEs) along the southeast coast approached a new dynamic form of ownership - the shareholding cooperative system (SCS). Based upon extensive field investigation in Zhejiang...

The author is concerned with countertrade (a means of obtaining goods or services without necessarily involving the use of money) in selected South East Asian countries. After giving the general background to countertrade, he discusses the socio-economic background of these countries together...

Continuing growth of population and pressures on land have brought increasing concern to the Sri Lankan government, because population growth has been far more rapid than could be sustained by the economy. The author examines population planning strategies and programmes in this country paying...

The author explores the extent of reserves of energy resources of India, describes their pattern of distribution and utilisation and suggests various measures for increasing the production and also conservation of resources of energy for augmenting the growth of the country's economy. (DÜI-Sen)

After reviewing the juche (self-reliance) ideology the article looks at the current economic situation in North Korea and the prospects for economic reform. It points out despite the inauguration of "the agriculture first, light industry first, and foreign trade first policies" for the...

As the authors see it, social forestry in India emerged to serve commercial interests of the economic and social elites of the Indian class and caste hierarchy. They discuss the issue of land ownership and tenure in social forestry, the role of the Forest Department in social forestry, people's...

The authors outline the urbanization process and attendant policies in China, especially since 1949, discuss rationales for and problems of the current development policy and explore disparities in industry, commerce, infrastructure etc among various ranks of cities through statistical...

South Korea's export-led industrialization strategy from the early 1960s heavily relied on the U.S. and Japanese markets. The article examines South Korea's bilateral trade structure and its changes with Japan and the USA. It also presents a set of crude econometric model to explore the...