The author focuses on the effect of the technological transformations that underline Simon Kuznet's stylized, inverted U curve for the West and for a similar curve that he (H. Oshima) worked for Asia, published in the Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics, June 1992. He points out that tendencies...

The article demonstrates that the huge level of foreign funds flowing into construction from 1975 to 1982 was a major factor in the recent high growth of the Asian NICs (South Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan) and four ASEAN countries (Philippines, Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia). When the boom...

The author examines policies to reduce the size distribution of family income in several countries of East, Southeast and South Asia with special reference to rural development policies, industrial development policies, educational policies, population policies and welfare policies. He also...