Life expectancy and income among the first countries to begin health transitions -- Which countries should be studied? -- A colonizer and the country colonized : Japan and Korea -- Very low income is not a barrier : Sri Lanka -- Two neighbors : Panama and Costa Rica -- Capitalism and communism,...

"In 1949, the Communist Party of China pledged that its approach to health care would differ markedly from that of the former Nationalist government and the ‘imperialist’ West. For the next thirty years under Mao’s leadership, the People’s Republic of China made improving the health of...

Disposable women and other myths of global capitalism -- Disposable daughters and factory fathers -- Manufacturing bodies -- The dialectics of still life: murder, women, and disposability -- Maquiladora mestizas and a feminist border politics -- Crossing the factory frontier -- Paradoxes and...

Introduction -- Research Localities and Research Methodology -- Locality, Power and Career Opportunity -- City Connectivity, Mobility and Translocality -- Workplace, Culture and Career Mobility: Gender Dynamics in Banks -- Work and Family: Cooperation and Resistance -- Conclusions: Gender,...

"This book provides a wealth of information and a critically required framework for sustainable automobile policy development in major Asian countries. It also gives a wide ranging policy options, ranging from technological and institutional solutions to automobile emission problems, based on...