Poverty In Asia Research Articles

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this articles: Technology Transfer and Development: implications for developing Asia Asian Development Bank David C. Cole, Hal S. Scott and Philip A. Wellons (eds) Trade Union Behaviour in the Philippines: 1946–1990 Leopoldo J. Dejillas Regional Trading Agreements Among Developing Countries: the ASEAN example Dean A. DeRosa Pacific Trade and Investment: options for the 90s Wendy Dobson and Frank Flatters (eds) Overseas Chinese Business Networks in Asia International Capital Markets: developments, prospects, and policy issues David Folkerts‐Landau and Takatoshi Ito, et al. Contemporary Issues in Philippine Rice Farming Akimi Fujimoto, Corazon B. Lamug and Toshiro Matsuda (eds) Growth Theories in Light of the East Asian Experience Takatoshi Ito and Anne O. Krueger (eds) Industrialization and Agricultural Surplus: a comparative study of economic development in Asia Massoud Karshenas Vietnam's Rural Transformation Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet and Doug J. Porter (eds) Thailand's Industrialization and its Consequences Medhi Krongkaew (ed.) Local Economy and Entrepreneurship in Thailand: a case study of Nakhon Ratchasima Yoko Ueda Macroeconomic Management in Southeast Asia's Transitional Economies Manuel F. Montes, Romeo A. Reyes and Somsak Tambunlertchai (eds) Growing Out of the Plan: Chinese economic reform 1978–1993 Barry Naughton The New Wave of Foreign Direct Investment in Asia Compiled by Nomura Research Institute and Institute of Southeast Asian Studies Urban Poverty in Asia: a survey of critical issues Ernesto Pernia (ed.) Malaysian Development: a retrospective Martin Rudner China's Rural Enterprises: ten case studies John Wong, Rong Ma, and Mu Yang (eds)

Toward an Ecumenical Christology for Asia

Asian theologians recognize that Asian theology must address two pressing issues: poverty and religiosity. Most Asian Christologies tend to address one to the exclusion of the other: the Cosmic Christ embraces religiosity: Jesus Christ Liberator confronts poverty: Jesus as pain-love of God comforts the suffering. The Christologies of M. M. Thomas and Aloysius Pieris, in contrast, address both poverty and religiosity in Asia. In both Christologies Christ's presence extends to Asia's struggle for a new society which takes place beyond the church's boundaries. This similarity is not due, however, to identical christological starting points: Pieris begins with the historical Jesus of the synoptic Gospels and Thomas with the Cosmic Christ of Colossians 1:15–20. Rather, it is due to the attempt of both theologians to address Asian poverty and religiosity.

Gender and Rural Poverty in Asia: Implications for Agricultural Project Design and Implementation

Gender and Rural Poverty in Asia: Implications for Agricultural Project Design and Implementation

Caste and the Andhra Communists

The primary raw material of Communist power in economically less developed regions of the world is neither the landless peasant with outstretched rice bowl nor the intellectual in search of a cause. Even more basic than these frequently summoned symbols, the realpolitik of social tensions determines political events where economic scarcity aggravates the particularisms dividing man from man.This contention gains strength from a study of Communist fortunes in a representative Asian setting. With little or no industrial economy to ease population density and underemployment, Andhra State on the southeast coast of India bears the familiar marks of Asian poverty. Here has emerged the most successful regional Communist movement in India. Yet the explanation for Andhra Communist strength does not lie in economic factors. The postwar decade in Andhra demonstrates that social factors can relegate even unusually powerful economic factors to a position of secondary importance.