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 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...